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Subject: Re: DEEP BLUES AVERAGE PLY?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:02:40 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 14:28:35, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On August 21, 2002 at 11:21:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2002 at 10:45:51, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On August 21, 2002 at 10:35:13, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>2 * sqrt(40)^18 = 524288000000000 nodes needed to search it *minimum*.
>>>
>>>That is pure alphabeta. Simple PVS will already reduce this tremendously.
>>>
>>>I'm quite sure we already did all the math five times, actually, but
>>>you keep 'forgetting' the details which don't coincide with your
>>>point of view.
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>
>>You got it... :)
>
>They used normal alfabeta in the software part as you can read in IEEE99.
>
>Probably you forgot that too?
>
>In 1999 you tried to prove, that using normal alfabeta didn't matter
>much as it was all done in the hardware and they only did a few ply
>in software anyway so who cares for it.

What on earth are you rambling about?  almost _everybody_ uses alpha/beta.

And I _never_ said "a few plies in software don't count..."

Better stop worrying about _my_ memory and get onto yours.  You have
some problems there...

>
>Best regards,
>Vincent



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