Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:05:13 04/04/03
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On April 04, 2003 at 12:58:33, José Carlos wrote: >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. Sorry, I meant to say "pruning NOT allowed". oops.... jm
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