Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:56:45 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 14:49:58, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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 I think you are looking at two different papers. The ACC8 is probably much older. ACC5 has a date of 1989. ACC8 is pretty old. I can't imagine ACC8 being printed after 1996 or so, which is when Crafty was ported to use their stuff.
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