How calculate the seldepth

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ernesto
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How calculate the seldepth

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Hello Friends.
How i can calculate the "seldepth" for the UCI protocol
mar
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Re: How calculate the seldepth

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what I do is 1+maximum ply reached during search (including qsearch), reset at the beginning of each loop in iterative deepening
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j.t.
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Re: How calculate the seldepth

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What I do is I don't do it.
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algerbrex
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Re: How calculate the seldepth

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j.t. wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 2:05 pm What I do is I don't do it.
Same here. I had it for a while in earlier versions of Blunder before I just removed it. Didn't see the need to have it, strictly speaking, especially since it's often quite engine dependent, and there's no standardize method of calculating it, so it's not really useful for comparisons across engines or anything like that.