Stockfish Tactical

[MOBMAT]

A couple of years ago I DL'ed a Stockfish variant called Stockfish Tactical.

It does do well with mate solving but there are a couple of UCI settings that I have no idea what they do or how to set them.

Tactical: this is a value from 0 to 8. If it works like Houdini's tactical setting, it is a value that controls how many threads are used as tactical threads, with (1) meaning every other 1, or all of them. A value of 2 would mean every second thread (every other), etc. I have it set to 1.

The other value is Tactical_depth (0-32). Not sure what it does, but setting it to 5 makes it search to a deeper depth faster than if it is set to 0.

Any ideas what these value do or what they should be set to for mate solving?

V

[Zerbinati]

The tactical option simply set the multiPV lines by multiples:

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0=default
2=multiPV
4=multiPV
8=multiPV
16=multiPV
32=multiPV
64=multiPV
128=multiPV
256=multiPV

A couple of years ago I DL'ed a Stockfish variant called Stockfish Tactical.

It does do well with mate solving but there are a couple of UCI settings that I have no idea what they do or how to set them.

Tactical: this is a value from 0 to 8. If it works like Houdini's tactical setting, it is a value that controls how many threads are used as tactical threads, with (1) meaning every other 1, or all of them. A value of 2 would mean every second thread (every other), etc. I have it set to 1.

The other value is Tactical_depth (0-32). Not sure what it does, but setting it to 5 makes it search to a deeper depth faster than if it is set to 0.

Any ideas what these value do or what they should be set to for mate solving?

V