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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:19:14 04/04/03

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On April 04, 2003 at 13:05:13, John Merlino wrote:

>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

And then you have programs that some claim have _no_ q-search, vs some that have
very
complex q-searches.  ply vs ply is simply impossible to evaluate, IMHO.



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