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Subject: Re: APHID , advances in ICCA #8

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:19:31 09/18/01

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On September 18, 2001 at 16:56:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

I'm quoting the numbers directly out of Brockingtons thesis and
the technical reports up at UAB.

--
GCP



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