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Subject: Re: DEEP BLUES AVERAGE PLY?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:11:22 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 10:37:12, Terry McCracken wrote:

All you need is page 5 which says they had a nominal search
depth of about 12.2 ply.

Best regards,
Vincent


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