Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 01:53:28 10/14/02
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On October 13, 2002 at 21:20:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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 > >I saw the question and answer tonight when I got back home. > >Too bad the question wasn't phrased reasonably to clear up the ambiguity. > >The above doesn't contradict the email I got from DB team members, nor does it >contradict the article they published. It is just too vague... Seems pretty clear to me what he said. The PV can be up to 6 ply deeper than 12 ply before quiescence search starts, this make a maximal PV length of 18 (not including extensions). regards Andreas
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