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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 7.32's Depth compared to Deep Thought

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:00:05 08/23/00

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On August 23, 2000 at 22:10:40, Joshua Lee wrote:

>I was wondering what Ply equivalent for Comercial programs to equal Deep
>Thought's at 11 and 16?
>In Monty Newborn's book Kasparov versus Deep Blue it says on page 156 that
>Deep Thought 0.02 searched at 1,440,000Nodes per second to a Depth of 10 in
>typical middlegame positions(whatever those are smirk) and that many lines were
>searched to a depth of 15.
>
>While not the same as Deep Thought of 1989, I have seen it as searching 11 and
>12 Ply against Kasparov. At a rate of 2,160,000Nodes per second it says that DT
>looked between 200 and 500Million positions per move, which is impossible
>considering it was Game in 90 and for Game 1 and according to the book after the
>game DT had 20minutes remaining on it's clock. The game lasted 52moves which
>give or take puts it at 80 seconds spent per move. As i am writing this i am
>realizing that it was most likely using Kasparov's Time as well so to factor
>that in...he used 80 minutes or 92 seconds for each of his moves. Tops
>172seconds were spent per move for DT at 2.16Mnps  371,520,000Nodes per move.
>I guess then the book is right but anyhow this isn't the question.
>
>I let Hiarcs7.32 sit for white to move move 36 to try and compare depth, you
>need just under 19minutes to reach 12Ply complete for move 36 of Kasparov-Deep
>Thought at 102Knps. with a 7Ghz machine you should get it in 2minutes 30sec at
>816Knps. If Deep Thought was searching 2.16Mnps and 200-500M per position it
>should take 33minutes on my computer to reach just over 200M and 82minutes to
>500M.13/31 Ply and 219Million nodes later and still judged as Bh6 instead of Qd1
>and = at 0.00 which is not the case. Or is an 15 Ply Search by Hiarcs the
>equivalent of a 11 Ply search by DT? Also if DT in 1988 looked at 10 but
>usually 15, DT in 1989 at 11 or 16Ply really is a 15 and 20Ply search by Hiarcs
>is needed???  How about for Fritz, Junior, Nimzo, Crafty or LG2000v29a??


I don't think there is any easy way to compare them.  Mostly you will get only
opinion, which is probably next to useless.  IMHO, I would certainly trust a
12 ply search by DT over a 12 ply search by _any_ other program.  I saw this
play out too many times.  But that is just an opinion.  Trying to compare A to
B is very difficult.  About like comparing your favorite TV to your favorite
stereo system.  Which is best?  Depends on what you want to do.



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