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Subject: THE 16 PLY CHALLENGE!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:46:17 09/14/00

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On September 14, 2000 at 14:36:41, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On September 14, 2000 at 14:33:49, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On September 14, 2000 at 14:30:07, Dan Ellwein wrote:
>>[SNIP]
>>>I guess it would be impractical to run this test with opening book disabled...
>>>
>>>(startin' with the very first move have the computer think on its own)...
>>>
>>>but i wonder what the data would look like if you did...
>>>
>>>it may be that there would not be a cut-off at iteration 19...
>>
>>My guess is that in the first ten moves no program on earth can get to ply 19
>>unless it does a ludicrous amount of speculative pruning.  Even 16 plies would
>>be formidable.
>
>
>We are close.

Are we really?

Let this run on the very fastest machine available to you:
[D]r4r2/q1pb1pkp/1p1p2p1/2nPpP1P/2P1P3/p1N2P2/PP1Q4/2KR1BR1 w - -

Please let me know when it gets to ply 16
;-)



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