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

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 06:42:30 01/31/04

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On January 31, 2004 at 02:39:19, Angrim wrote:

>On January 30, 2004 at 19:25:46, Bob Durrett wrote:
>>Thanks for your comments and thanks to Bob Hyatt too.
>>
>>I guess what this is all about is that I do not recall having read anything here
>>at CCC dedicated to the special problems of those unfortunate engines who are
>>faced with a user command to limit the ply depth to a certain depth.  Of
>
>The whole point of having a command to search to a fixed depth is to make
>the engine play weaker, it would be dumb to spend time trying to make it
>play better when this is activated.
>
>Angrim

What is dumb when  one's leisure time is involved?  Is amateur computer chess
dumb?  How is one leisure activity better than another?  Programming can be done
"just for the fun of it."  IMHO.

Bob D.



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