Author: pete
Date: 14:02:48 06/22/00
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On June 22, 2000 at 16:54:55, Chessfun wrote: >On June 22, 2000 at 16:17:09, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On June 22, 2000 at 15:02:48, Daniel Chancey wrote: >> >>>Why is CM6000 sel. 10 and CM6000SS10 the same? >>> >>>Castle2000 >> >>What does SS under style stand for? >> >>Best wishes... >>Mogens > >SS = Selective Search Unless told to do otherwise, the computer >considers every possible play and its implications to an infinite number of >plays before making its next move. This makes for slow and, therefore >relatively weak, play by the computer. The default here is 6, which means >that the computer selectively disregards unpromising lines for the first six >plies of the search. Beyond the selective search, it does a brute force >Search of all possible remaining moves. > >Thanks. This sounds a little messed up to my ignorant self ; after being selective in the 1st 6 plies you suddenly do brute force in the far away regions of the tree ? I suppose I have yet _way_ to go ; this is nearly the opposite I would have expected from a selective search .
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