Author: Mike S.
Date: 16:11:50 09/07/01
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On September 07, 2001 at 18:07:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >I don't think you can use the plies in a comparison. >(...) >What a ply means from program to program is (unfortunately) incredibly >non-standard. You can make meaningful comparisons of ply depth only for a given >program against itself (and even then, only if the search tree retains its shape >for both tests!). I know, but I think the ply depth comparison would at least be a bit more meaningful than the node rate comparison between these two very different systems. The plies comparison won't tell us everything, but I tend to come to the conclusion that the node rate comparison tells us close to nothing. In short terms, ply depth tells always much more about strength than node rate. (And if this last sentence if proven wrong, I have wasted a lot of time during the last 20 years with computer chess :o) Regards, Mike Scheidl
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