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Subject: Re: Question? how to read Deep Blue logs

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:36:16 01/27/02

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On January 27, 2002 at 04:07:42, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 27, 2002 at 00:47:04, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>11(6) means 11 plies in software, plus 6 more in the hardware. That was
>>discussed here and on r.g.c.c. several times.
>>
>>Eugene
>
>This was discussed but there was no agreement about the meaning.
>I did not express opinion about the meaning of 11(6) and I only expres


There is no need for any "agreement" here.  This is not an "opinion" it
is a _direct statement_ by the deep blue team.  Therefore no "agreement"
needs to be reached as to its meaning.  I would think they _know_.



>opinion that it is practically less than 17 plies of the top programs.
>
>The reason may be more extensions of the top programs of today and I did not
>express an opinion about it.
>
>Top programs are not using singular extensions but they use different extensions
>and I do not know if deeper blue used all the extensions that the top programs
>of today use.
>
>I remember few examples when other programs needed 15 plies to see similiar pv's
>to the pv's that deeper blue found in 11(6).
>I am not sure if these were the exact number but this was at least the idea
>
>Uri



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