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Subject: Re: Hitting the researchwall

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 15:46:39 08/24/01

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On August 24, 2001 at 15:45:28, Tony Werten wrote:

>On August 24, 2001 at 15:18:04, Carmelo Calzerano wrote:
[snip]
>>Here I don't understand: don't you get a 12 ply PV (better, a PV which comes
>>from a 12 ply search) when searching at depth 1, 2, ... 12? If so, you should
>>have the same PV when searching at depth = 13, which is all what you need...
>>What am I missing here?
>
>Having only a 12ply pv in a 13 ply search isn't really going to help you if you
>want to finish the search in a reasonable time.
>

Isn't this *always* the case ? When you finish ply n, you have a PV n ply long
when you search ply n+1.



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