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Subject: Re: Can anyone get this?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 08:49:48 10/06/03

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On October 06, 2003 at 04:05:42, Johan de Koning wrote:

>On October 05, 2003 at 13:33:04, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2003 at 01:42:13, scott farrell wrote:
>>
>>>how do you interpret CM's ply notation?
>>>what does 3/12 mean?
>
>Confusion galore when talking about search depths.
>Therefore it's best not to interpret ply notation at all. :-)
>
>>The first number is the brute force depth, and the second number is the minimum
>>extension depth.
>
>Personally (for the 12 in CM's 3/12) I prefer the term nominal depth.
>It's comparable to other engines' nominal depth, because they're all nominal.
>But that's where the comparison ends since "nominal" carries no meaning by
>definition. Except for nominal D+1 being nominally deeper than nominal D of
>course, assuming everything else being equal.
>
>... Johan

Ok, Johan. I just might quote that answer from now on, just to see how many
"huh?" answers I get back. ;-)

jm



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