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Subject: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 09:05:30 01/30/04

A friend is playing games against his chess-playing program on his PC and asked
this question.  I do not know the answer.

Suppose the user sets the ply depth to 5 ply.  There are several things the
engine could do in that case, assuming in the middlegame.

If sufficient time were available:

The entire tree could be exhaustively analyzed.

The position evaluation could be done more extensively/thoroughly.

Do any engines to the above?  Or, do they just stop prematurely?

Bob D.

• Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? William H Rogers 15:27:31 01/30/04
  • Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? Bob Durrett 16:25:46 01/30/04
    • Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? Angrim 23:39:19 01/30/04
      • Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? Bob Durrett 06:42:30 01/31/04
• Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? Robert Hyatt 10:20:47 01/30/04
  • Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? Bob Durrett 10:36:57 01/30/04
    • Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? Robert Hyatt 11:28:05 01/30/04
      • Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? Bob Durrett 12:40:32 01/30/04
        • Re: What Does the Engine Do When User Sets Maximum Ply Depth? Robert Hyatt 15:03:28 01/30/04

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