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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