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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 7 for Macintosh

Author: Richard A. Fowell

Date: 21:22:08 01/06/02

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On January 06, 2002 at 21:38:03, Richard A. Fowell wrote:

>On January 06, 2002 at 20:41:46, Louis Brickman wrote:
>
>>Can someone please explain Hiarc's messages, containing >>, after each move?
>
>I'm a bit rusty, and my manual is boxed up, but roughly:
>
>The message line:
> 7>>25 8 621kN c4-c3 f1-d3 c3xd2 e1-f1 a5-d5 c8-d7 d3xe4 = 558
>means:
>The best sequence found to date for HIARCS was found when searching at
>7 ply, at the
>25 th move choice, after thinking for a total of
>8  seconds and examining a total of
>621kN (621 kilo Nodes - roughly 621,000 positions). The sequence is:
>c4-c3 f1-d3 c3xd2 e1-f1 a5-d5 c8-d7 d3xe4 at which point HIARCS is ahead by
>558 /128 of a pawn.
>
>Richard A. Fowell

After looking more carefully, I'm sure I was wrong about the "25" being
the 25th move choice. I'm pretty sure it represents the maximum search
depth (with extensions), so:
7>>25
means: 7 ply (minimum, complete) to 25 ply (maximum, with extensions)

Richard A. Fowell



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