Author: Dan Newman
Date: 11:15:25 06/05/01
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On June 05, 2001 at 05:40:22, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Hi > >On June 04, 2001 at 22:45:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> It is so close to perfectly ordered that it can be called "perfectly ordered" >> with no danger of being wrong enough that it can be measured. > >Let's hope that no mathematician ever quotes you on this. ;) > >Still it's amazing to me to reach 30 plies that fast. (or in PM's case even >faster) 30 plies w/ perfect alpha-beta should be 15 plies w/o alpha-beta, right? > >I don't know about your engine but a 15-ply search w/o alpha-beta from the >initial position is.. welp.. out of the question. :) Maybe null-move helps with >this a lot? or I am missing something obvious? Or both? :) What approx. depths >would a non-MTD(f) engine reach in the same experiment? > >Regards, > >Sargon Shrike, a PVS engine, got through depth 29 in 8.3 hours, 35 billion nodes (with material-only eval and extensions turned off on a P3/933). Makes me want to try MTD(f) :). -Dan.
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