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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:09:17 10/17/02

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On October 16, 2002 at 23:35:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 15, 2002 at 14:01:35, Johan Melin wrote:
>
>>On October 14, 2002 at 07:34:16, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>
>>>Bob, did you read the Hsu transcript posted here? It is pretty clear to me that
>>>Hsu himself says 12 ply fullwidth *total*. Case closed. Please read the complete
>>>transcript.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Bas.
>>
>>I agree. The transcript with Hsu is clear. But it would be out of character for
>>CCC if everybody just agreed with each other, there still has to be a fight ...
>>;)
>>
>>/Johan Melin
>
>
>Here is the relevant part of the transcript:
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: 12(6) means 12 plies of brute force (not
>counting the search extensions & quiescence).
>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: 6 means the maximum hardware search depth
>allowed.
>CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: this means that the PV could be up to 6 plies
>deeper before quiescence.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>OK, some questions:
>
>1.  If 12(6) means 12 plies total, with 6 done in hardware, how do you reconcile
>that
>_last_ sentence above (the PV could be up to 6 plies _deeper_ before
>quiescence).
>Deeper than what?  Only possible answer is deeper than 12 plies.

No

I think that he meant deeper than the pv that was in the logfile.

>
>2.  If 12(6) means 12 plies total, with 6 in hardware, what does 4(5) mean?  4
>plies total
>with 5 done in hardware?  Which means the SP hardware does _no_ searching and
>that
>_everything_ (and then some it seems) is done by the hardware chess chips?


No

It is possible that the original depth is 4 but the hardware got 5 plies because
of 2 ply extension.

They did not do more than 2 ply extension for 2 plies but I think that there was
no rule that they did not do 2 ply extension for 1 ply.

>
>Neither of those matches what he says above.
>
>I read his explanation of 12(6) as "12 plies of brute force, up to 6 more plies
>of hardware
>search [which is not brute-force as he has explained elsewhere, because of the
>forward pruning
>they were doing]".

I never read him say up to to 6 *more* plies of hardware

Uri



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