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Subject: Re: APHID , advances in ICCA #8

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:49:58 09/18/01

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On September 18, 2001 at 12:42:24, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 18, 2001 at 11:54:45, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>All testresults they published are based upon 5 to 8 ply searches
>>and based upon a program called TheTurk. No mention of crafty speedups,
>>and if they are then it's still 5 to 8 ply.
>
>Literal quote:
>
>'..and accomplishes 11 and 12 ply searches in approximately 260
>seconds using 32 processors'

Advances in computerchess 8 only TheTurk is quoted there
with only 5 to 8 ply searches which are put in graphs.

Your weird conclusions there is not a word on that in AICC8.

>Given that they used 230 seconds on 16 processors for the speedup
>data, it's based on 10 and 11 ply searches.

that's a nonsense conclusion. There is ONLY a graph from 5 to 8 ply
searches.

>The graphs in the technical report show increasing APHID performance
>as depth gets larger, and not the other way around.

Of course it goes from 5 to 8 ply here!

>--
>GCP



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