Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 13:12:01 09/12/03
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On September 12, 2003 at 15:49:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 12, 2003 at 15:40:47, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>Even at 8 ply or (any ply), you have no idea about how the program is >>extending. Try limiting Crafty to 1 ply and then look at it supply a move >>vector of 3 or 4 plys. I assume this is due to extensions or q-search or >>whatever. This is why ply comparisons aren't that useful, unless it's two >>versions of the same program, maybe. > >Yes. The comparison is completely senseless no matter how you look at >it, but you're preaching to the choir here :) > >I initially tried to test against Deep Sjeng 1.5, but it limits the >search hard to the depth that is set with 'fixed ply', whereas >Shredder & Crafty still allow extensions/quiescent search. >Obviously, this gives entirely different results than when I relax >this restriction. And we're still at the same ply depth in the >same program :) BTW, what does "Sjeng" mean? :) Thanks, MH > >-- >GCP
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