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Subject: Re: Q&A with Feng-Hsiung Hsu

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 10:19:34 10/13/02

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On October 13, 2002 at 12:00:39, Andrew Williams wrote:

>Several people asked:
>
>Question: What does "12(6)" mean in Deep Blue's logs?
>
>Dr Hsu said, "12(6) means 12 plies of brute force (not counting the search
>extensions & quiescence). 6 means the maximum hardware search depth allowed.
>this means that the PV could be up to 6 plies deeper before quiescence."
>
>Unfortunately questions were being fed through a third-party, so it wasn't
>possible to get a follow-up.
>
>Andrew

How about this one?

EeEk(* DM) kiebitzt: kib question from ardee: Does "12(6)" mean 12 total ply or
12+6=18 total ply?  This has the been source of huge arguments for years!
CrazyBird(DM) kiebitzt: 12 total in terms of brute force. 6 is just the max
partition in hardware.

This one sounds pretty clear to me.

Peter



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