Author: blass uri
Date: 11:26:07 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 13:41:44, Oystein Lorentzen wrote:
>Friends of chess!
>
>I am a novice at using chessplaying softweare, so please let me ask a very basic
>question. This C-C C MB is very serious and have a very high standard, and I
>have learned a lot by reading from it the last few mounth. Thank you!
>
>I understand Fritz seeks one PLY ("half-move") after the other, represented by
>f.ex. 12/30, meening 12 PLY brute force plus 30 PLY selectiv.
>My Junior however represents depth only by one singe number. In a normal
>middelgame position it goes normaly 11 - 13 - 15 etc. (given enough time).
>Sometimes it even goes from 15 to 18 (!). Is this brute force depth? I find that
>not likely, considering it only takes some 5 minutes to depth 18-20 on a Pentium
>III 500Mhz.
>
>Very happy if anyone would spend some minutes of explaining what the
>depth-number of Junior 6.0 means!
>
>olly
Depth x is usually about x/2 plies brute force is odd depth and the maximal
depth is usually 2x plies.
In most lines depth x is more than x/2 plies so practically Junior see more than
x/2 plies in relevant lines so depth x of Junior will play better than brute
force x/2 of other programs.
Uri
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