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Subject: Re: DEEP BLUES AVERAGE PLY?

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 07:37:12 08/21/02

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I just recieved your e-mail Vincent, I'll read the PDF later today, thanks.

Terry




On August 21, 2002 at 10:20:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On August 21, 2002 at 09:00:19, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>please read the thing i emailed you to  nomad@easyfocus.com
>
>what is worth more.
>the statement of a guy with a bad memory called hyatt who
>doesn't even know when he stripped razoring out of his OWN
>software, or the statement of the programmer of the thing
>called deep blue II ?
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent
>
>>On August 21, 2002 at 08:22:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On August 21, 2002 at 08:13:47, emerson tan wrote:
>>>
>>>>wHATA IS DEEP BLUES AVERAGE PLY LEVEL ON TOURNAMENT TIME CONTROL, I UNDERSTAND
>>>>THAT IT CALCULATES 200 MILLION POSITIONS PER SECOND BUT NEVER HEARD OF ITS
>>>>AVERAGE PLY. THANKS
>>>
>>>they estimate it at 126 million nodes a seconda gainst deep blue.
>>>
>>>It had a nominal search depth (depth limit) of 12 ply. With a lot of
>>>tactical extensions a lot of lines were searched at 17 ply though.
>>>
>>>that's however true for all chess programs. I averaged in DIEP way
>>>deeper. It depends basically whether you count hashtable cutoffs with
>>>the depth or not. I tend to not count them. In hardware there was not
>>>a hashtable.
>>>
>>>Average search depth says nothing. The nominal search depth is more important.
>>>This was 12 ply. So the weakest link were lines of 12 ply simply.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Vincent
>>
>>
>>Deep Blue II did searches with extensions of 17 ply + at 3 min. per move and
>>wasn't uncommon to actually hit 22 plys.
>>
>>Dr. Robert Hyatt watched this with his own eyes, so I'm sure he'll have
>>something relevant to say on this matter.
>>
>>Also Deep Blue II at times searched 1,000,000,000 plys a sec. and wasn't all
>>that uncommon to do so!
>>
>>Terry



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