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Subject: Re: Ply Depth in relation to playing strength

Author: blass uri

Date: 19:56:32 09/29/99

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On September 29, 1999 at 17:02:02, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.
>
>[snip]

Junior does not use null-move heuristic

Uri



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