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Subject: Re: More and More Plies

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 12:03:27 05/10/00

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On May 10, 2000 at 07:51:32, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>Hi
>
>>>Are they cheating somehow?  Since ply depth is probably a strong
>>>selling point.
>>I do not think that customers are so stupid to decide on buying
>>programs based on the ply depth.
>
>Never underestimate human stupidity. :) [source unknown to me]
>
>But given the fact that there were quite a lot of discussions about
>NPS in CCC and that almost every program outputs the current NPS
>in ICC or "in real" (which is a rather useless information if you're
>not the author of the engine - my opinion), I think that NPS is even
>the bigger seller. And the definition of NPS among the programmers
>as as vague as 'ply', if not more.
>
>Regards,
> -sargon

Speaking as program hobbyist I believe that most of us buy for playing strength
and GUI features ! Those are my priorities.

For example Hiarcs 7.32 is a slow searcher, Try it out in bullet or Blitz it is
still very very strong in these time control's

Wayne



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