Author: William H Rogers
Date: 11:32:27 09/29/98
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On September 29, 1998 at 14:26:53, John Coffey wrote: >On September 29, 1998 at 14:00:40, William H Rogers wrote: > >>Has anyone done any research on the ratings that a program has at different >>plys? >>I once saw a test of chess 4.7 and they had some preliminary ratings on their >>program at different ply levels. They could set the depth that their program >>would search, not necessarily based on time. >>bill > > >I have seen in several sources that 1 extra ply = 1 rating class, but >I don't know how true this really is. It is hard for me to imagine that >it would be true at the top level. i.e. if 11 ply = an IM, then 12 ply = a GM? > >John Coffey The ratings I saw were large at the lower plys but got smaller at higher plys. I think that Larry Kauffman? did an article on it once in his computer reports. Chess 4.7 ratings jumped 200 to 300 points at lower plys but settled down to about 100 or so at higher levels. Bill
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