CGIskak - Preferences

Here you can set the game strength. The engine iteratively searches the current position for the best move. Each iteration the search depth is extended by one ply until a stop criteria is met:

Below you can set the value of these two parameters. max_search is typically the more useful of the two - since it correlates better with time. In both cases, however, a larger value means stronger game play (and longer response time).

max_ply [0-25]
max_search [0-200000]

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