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

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 02:13:03 10/14/02

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On October 13, 2002 at 15:35:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On October 13, 2002 at 14:40:12, James Swafford wrote:
>
>I wonder why. there is just one person ever in this whole
>planet who said 12(6) = 18 ply, and that's robert hyatt.
>
>there is 4 the same statements from hsu.
>  a) page 5 at his paper.
>  b) 3 in this talk
>
>there is many statements from hyatt in 98 and 99 that it was
>getting 12 ply, when in 99 at world champs many got 12 ply it was
>18 ply suddenly...
>
>But the clearest statement is next:
>
>EeEk(* DM) kibitzes: 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!
>
>directly the answer came a few seconds later:
>
>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: 12 total in terms of brute force. 6 is just the max
>partition in hardware.
>
>

Utter nonsense. What would be sense of a million dollar hardware that is
restricted for ply 1 to 6? Even my Super Forte on a 5Mhz 65xx got 6 ply Brute
Force in 1987. 480 processors that fight for 48000 positions?

12 ply software, then harware kicks in. 12 ply + 6 ply means a search depth <=
18 ply.

Andreas




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