Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 04:49:04 09/09/03
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On September 09, 2003 at 06:04:46, Uri Blass wrote: >A friend that is playing correspondence chess told me that he read >in the past something about this in a guide of chessbase so he is careful not to >let Junior to get to even depth. > >I never heard about it. >Do you know something about it? > >I told him that I do not believe that even or odd plies are relevant and deeper >is better but he insisted that he read something about it. > >I know that Junior is different than most programs because it does not go deeper >by 1 every ply but I also do not believe that a problem in even depth has >something to do with Junior. > >He claims that it is possible that he read it some years ago and it is not >relevant for the new junior and asked me to ask about it here. > >If you know more than me about it(including having a conjecture about what my >friend is talking) then please reply. > >If you do not know except thinking like me that it does not make sense then do >not answer. > >Uri In the Chessbase-Help to Shredder 7 there is the following text for settings for a shootout: Skip even plies: allows you to avoid the weakness of some engines at even plies. In the above example, setting 5 – 9 plies and skipping even plies results in three games (at a search depth of 5, 7 and 9). Since sides are changed after each game, we have a total of six games in the shootout. I wonder too, why even plies should result in weaker moves and I didn't find any more detalied explanation in the chessbase-help. regards Joachim
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