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Subject: Re: it would be interesting to run a match with a fix # of plies or dept

Author: John Merlino

Date: 09:39:14 04/04/03

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On April 04, 2003 at 11:53:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 04, 2003 at 11:40:41, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>it would be interesting to run a match with a fix # of plies or depth instead of
>>using Time control. For instance depth 18.
>>
>>Jorge
>
>Doesn't make much sense.  Some programs could reach "depth=18" quickly.
>Chessmater
>might take years.

Exactly. Some programs, like Chessmaster, report their MINIMUM extension depth
in their PVs. Others, report the MAXIMUM.

I guess it might work if you could force every engine to have no extensions and
just do a brute force search, say to depth 8 or so (pruning allowed).

jm



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