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Subject: Re: Ply Depth in Relation to Elo Rating

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 14:59:20 05/17/00

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On May 17, 2000 at 16:54:26, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Unfortunately, your observation that people measure ply depth differently is
>entirely correct.
>
>Here is what it boils down to:
>Computer Chess is almost a pure search problem.  Those programs that search

I'm not sure what you mean by 'pure search problem', but it seems to imply that
search is practically the only thing that determines program strength.  This
would of course be incorrect, evaluation is a very important component of any
chess program.

>smarter, deeper, and better play better.
>
>How to measure that exactly is anyone's guess.



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