Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 03:08:44 10/14/02
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On October 14, 2002 at 05:13:03, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >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 Please listen carefully. He said it is 12 ply. It was 12 ply. NO ONE got 12 ply in 1997 with such a program. Schach 3.0 if you give it billions of nodes for a search doesn't get further than 12 ply *ever*. And this is a very simple program in assembly, WITH nullmove. Do you get the point? That we today have such improved engines which take better advantage of RAM and have a better branching factor, you cannot compare that with 1997 deep blue. Because deep blue didn't use nullmove for example. With nullmove Fritz has a branching factor defined by: 2.8^depth * c Deep Blue has more like 4.5^depth * e where the 'e' from deep blue is MUCH bigger than c from fritz. So please do not compare it. everyone with a calculator knows that 2.8 to the power depth is going to be way way less than 4.5 to the power depth. Do you?
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