Author: leonid
Date: 15:45:25 10/14/99
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On October 14, 1999 at 15:17:31, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On October 14, 1999 at 14:41:11, leonid wrote: > >>On October 14, 1999 at 09:40:23, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >> >>>It's a time setting. >>>After Hiarcs reaches the number of plies that are indicated here it will do it's >>>move. >>>BTW a ply is a half move (move white or move black). So fixed depth 6 plies >>>means that after calculating all possible moves for 6 plies (3 moves) Hiarcs >>>will execute the best move he found up to that time. >>> >>>Makes it e.g. weaker in the endgame. >>> >>>Jeroen ;-} >> >>But are you sure about this? Could Hiarcs, even if you indicated >>"fixed depth", go more deeply to see for so called "extensions"? > >Yes. All programs do some kind of extensions, so that a 6-ply search is really >more than 6-ply much of the time. > >Jeremiah So, maybe, here we are in a paradox situation. From one side we are in the game that presumably goes after stric and clear logic, and in the same time we see the usage in it simple human words in the most obscure and unexpected way. Why it is so? Leonid.
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