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Subject: Re: Ply Depth in relation to playing strength

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:02:02 09/29/99

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On September 29, 1999 at 16:55:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:
[snip]
>at 3 minutes per move I get to 14 plies all the time on my quad....  but that
>isn't the same kind of 14 plies that hiarcs would search if it could get to 14
>plies, of course.
>
>His point was that 14 plies for a null-mover is like 12 plies for a non-null-
>mover program...

Which successful programs do not use the null-move heuristic?  I thought pretty
much everyone used it.

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