Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:28:08 01/31/02
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On January 31, 2002 at 14:04:13, Andrew Dados wrote: > > >From their own publication, 'Deep Blue', June 2001 >Example of search depths over one position >r1r1q1k1/6p1/3b1p1p/1p1PpP2/1Pp5/2P4P/R1B2QP1/R5K1 w >from DB-Kasparow game 2 from 1997, before move 37 > >When chips were set to minimum fullwith 4 plys: > >A.Iteration >B.Minimum software depth >C.Maximum software depth >D.Maximum Estimated combined depth > >A B C D >---------------- >6 2 5 11-21 >7 3 6 12-22 >8 4 11 17-27 >9 5 15 21-31 >10 6 17 23-33 >11 7 20 26-36 >12 8 23 29-39 > >So iteration is clearly the sum of minimum software depth (B) and hardware depth >(4 plys here). > >-Andrew- OK... but what does this have to do with the current discussion? DB doesn't report "an iteration number". It reports things like 10(6) and directly according to Hsu (from the email I posted) 10 is the software depth, and (6) is the hardware depth. They are _added_ to get the total depth...
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