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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:46:29 10/16/02

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On October 15, 2002 at 03:27:34, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

reduce the extensions. i use singular extensions in diep.
see posting elsewhere here. you see also a 23 ply line from
diep there from which just 2 checks. and the search depth is
17 ply.

So i won somehow 6 plies because of singular extensions, which
basically extends threats against pawns and captures (in this
case no checks as there were only 2 which < 6 ply ).

You so naive?

>On October 14, 2002 at 09:44:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On October 14, 2002 at 07:05:42, Dave Gomboc 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.
>>>
>>>Bullshit -- I said this years ago, after asking a member of the DB team.
>>
>>>Hsu just said it himself too:
>>
>>>EeEk(* DM) kibitzes: next question: Seems like people wants to know
>>>what the exact meaning of ""12(6)" in the Deep Blue log files, can you
>>>explain this?
>>>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: 12(6) means 12 plies of brute force (not
>>>counting the search extensions & quiescence).
>>
>>by definition this means: it was 12 ply not counting search extensions
>>and qsearch. of course hardware search is part of that.
>>
>>>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: 6 means the maximum hardware search depth
>>>allowed.
>>
>>that's part of that 12 ply. If you interpret it different then that's
>>your problem and wrong.
>>
>>'brute force search' is everything including hardware. In fact hsu
>>even specified it for the technical gifted that it is just
>>EXCLUDING qsearch and excluding extensions.
>>
>>>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: this means that the PV could be up to 6 plies
>>>deeper before quiescence.
>>
>>*possibly* if it prints (6), the logs clearly show that 5(6) doesn't
>>show a 5 ply mainline. but < 5
>
>Sometimes it will happen, so?  I've seen Fritz display a one-move PV for many
>plies in a row, so just because they show a short PV occasionally doesn't mean
>much of anything.
>
>There is not a single 5(6) in the logs, so I take 4(5) instead.
>After wrong pondering I find mainlines of length:
>
>Game 1: 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 5, 2, 5, 6, 3, 5, 15, 3, 4, 6, 3, 7
>Game 2: 3, 7, 7, 5, 6, 6, 2, 7, 8, 4, 4, 7
>Game 3: 2, 4, 6, 6, 7, 4, 6, 4, 6, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 7, 5, 3, 6, 13, 6, 7
>Game 4: 2, 3, 9, 2, 5, 3, 6, 4, 7, 3, 15, 5, 6, 7, 3, 7, 12
>Game 5: 3, 5, 6, 11, 5, 2, 7, 5, 9, 4, 9, 6, 6, 7, 10, 2, 7
>Game 6: 14, 4, 2, 3
>
>Total length 2: 10
>Total length 3: 15
>Total length 4: 13
>Total length 5: 10
>Total length > 5: 40
>Average length: 5.45 (480/88)
>
>This _IS_ proof that n(n+1) does NOT show a mainline of length < n in the
>average case.  Even if you want to take only the first 5 such outputs in a game,
>the average is 4.86.  Go further and take only the first 3 - the average is
>still 4.66.



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