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Subject: Re: Latest CM Tournament Score

Author: Chessfun

Date: 14:06:40 06/22/00

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On June 22, 2000 at 17:02:48, pete wrote:

>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 .

Maybe, but was cut and pasted out of CM6K.
Thanks.





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