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Subject: Re: Depth vs Time

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 13:55:03 06/24/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 11:48:46, Steve Coladonato wrote:

>On June 24, 2002 at 11:05:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 24, 2002 at 07:35:53, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>>
>>>There is a post concerning a test position and some analysis by Junior and
>>>Shredder.  I was curious if there has been a compilation of Depth vs. Time by
>>>Engine for some of these test positions where the hardware is the same (or
>>>really close to being the same).  I'm not so curious as to whether a solution
>>>was found, just how long it takes to get to the depth.  From the posts, it looks
>>>like it took Junior about 1 hour to reach Depth 21 while it took Shredder about
>>>1 hour to reach Depth 15.  But I don't know if its apples vs. apples with the
>>>hardware.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Steve
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I believe if program A gets to 21 ply faster than program B it doesn't prove
that program A is the better program, because program A could have a very
selective search, but with this very selective search it could miss possibly
some good moves in a game and cause it to lose sometimes!

Regards,
      Terry
>>
>>
>>Junior doesn't count "plies" the same as everybody else...
>
>Thanks Dr. Hyatt.  There was a pretty big discrepancy there and I was wondering.



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