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

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 23:13:23 10/14/02

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On October 14, 2002 at 19:27:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 14, 2002 at 19:13:22, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On October 14, 2002 at 15:17:20, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I understand from it that 6 is the maximal part in the hardware of the 12 plies.
>>>
>>>Max partition means max part.
>>>The number 18 was not mentioned in Hsu's reply so it seems clear to me that he
>>>meant part of 12.
>>
>>Please explain 4(5).
>
>Here is my guess
>
>4 is the brute force depth
>5 is the maximal length of lines in the hardware.
>
>I see no contradiction.
>
>The hardware can get position when the remaining brute force depth is 3 and
>search in some lines 5 plies forward thanks to extensions or qsearch.

So basically you're saying the second number is meaningless as pertains to the
discussion of 'brute-force depth' in DB?



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