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Subject: Re: Good point, Mark!

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 03:15:28 04/13/02

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On April 12, 2002 at 20:47:35, martin fierz wrote:

>On April 12, 2002 at 20:25:01, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On April 12, 2002 at 17:30:33, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>>
>>>On April 12, 2002 at 17:05:45, Mark Young wrote:
>>>
>>>>Todays top micros must be pure Genius next to Deep Blue as Deep Blue needed
>>>100X to 1000X the NPS that the top micros needed to play about as well.
>>>
>>>Good point, Mark.
>>
>>I also wonder why everybody seems to talk NPS. I talk ply depth.
>
>which would be all right if fritz was really doing the ply it tells you it's
>doing. with DB, you knew it had looked at everything. with fritz, this is not
>the case...
>
>aloha
>  martin
>

Hi,Martin
You are right , DB made an exhaustive search using a brute force approach, but
there lies the smartness of selective search algorithms of new pc programs:
they can achieve *almost* the same results without examining the full tree.

w.b.r.
Otello




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