Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 19:17:06 09/14/04
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On September 14, 2004 at 21:17:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: >There is something that perhaps you are missing; no matter if a program does not >go deeper than X plies, its continous processing means that more nodes are >examined in a large WIDTH inside the same DEPTH. It is not the same to see, say, >ten thousand moves inside the horizon of ply 6 than to examine 300 thousand >moves inside the same hotrizon making use of more time available. The extra >moves can means to detect threats, best combinations, etc. >So it makes sense a faster COPU after all. >Fernando Ok I understand exactly what you are talking about, however in all the time of using hiarcs9 since I purchased it, I have never seen it change its mind on a move until it moved to the next ply, or started going down the list from 1/44 2/44 3/44 etc etc. When it was looking for say Depth 12 33.dxe3 1/44 it would suddnely change its mind, even if it was looking over a broader range of moves within the SAME depth,
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