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Subject: Re: Odd ply´s (as in odd/even) are strange, why?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 17:00:58 06/22/02

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On June 22, 2002 at 17:15:42, Russell Reagan wrote:

>Would it be more advantageous to use iterative deepening with an increment of 2
>instead of 1? In other words, instead of searching 1 ply, 2 ply, 3 ply, 4 ply,
>etc. you would search 2 ply, 4 ply, 6 ply, 8 ply, etc. Would this change
>anything at all?
>
>Russell


A very long time ago (in computer chess time scale), there was a top computer
chess programmer that did this, but he later abandoned it. Sorry I can't
remember the name of the programmer or the name of the program.



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