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Subject: Re: Test data

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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