Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:20:47 01/30/04
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On January 30, 2004 at 12:05:30, Bob Durrett wrote: > >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. I am not sure what that means... > >The position evaluation could be done more extensively/thoroughly. Nor that since the normal Evaluation() stuff is done at appropriate points inside the tree already. There's no other places where it could be done.. > >Do any engines to the above? Or, do they just stop prematurely? > >Bob D. If "prematurely" means "when you said to stop" then I guess the answer is they stop "prematurely". If you say "5 plies" they do 5 plies and that's all...
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