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

Author: José Carlos

Date: 09:58:33 04/04/03

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On April 04, 2003 at 12:39:14, John Merlino wrote:

>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

  Prunning is basically the same concept as extending, ie give preference to
some interesting subtrees over non interesting. Also, programs do different
things in qsearch, so it isn't comparable.

  José C.

• Re: it would be interesting to run a match with a fix # of plies or dept John Merlino 10:05:13 04/04/03
  • Re: it would be interesting to run a match with a fix # of plies or dept Robert Hyatt 11:19:14 04/04/03
    • Re: it would be interesting to run a match with a fix # of plies or dept Uri Blass 12:21:13 04/04/03
      • Re: interesting to run a match with a fix # of plies or dept ...or nodes Mike S. 19:26:08 04/04/03

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