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Subject: Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:19:06 02/19/02

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On February 19, 2002 at 16:29:48, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On February 19, 2002 at 10:56:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Test your hypothesis.  Others already have and after a _week_ of searching
>>they found exactly _nothing_.  60 plies is too deep for something that is not
>>narrow and forced.  And even for something forced, 60 plies is very tough to
>>touch except for what are often called "straightjacket" positions where both
>>sides have one legal move for an extended period of time.
>>
>>You aren't going to find _this_ draw in 24 hours from the original position
>>where they moved their king to the wrong square.  I don't care what kind of
>>hardware you have.
>
>Is it really 60 ply? The analysis on the Rebel site claims 36 plies.
>
>Just for the hell of it, I'm letting ChessTiger 14.0 run for a few days
>or so on my XP 1800 on this position.
>
>It's at ply 20 right now. You know what's really interesting? It's
>having a branching factor of LESS than 2 here.
>
>--
>GCP


I am not sure what we mean by "ply" here.  IIRC the deepest variations go to
60 plies to reach a draw by repetition.  The 36 ply you quote _might_ be the
depth Rebel would need to be able to reach 60 plies in the critical variations,
I am not sure.



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