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Subject: Re: question to Prof Hyatt on average ply search

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 16:11:44 10/13/04

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On October 12, 2004 at 21:17:34, Duncan Roberts wrote:

>you once said I think that crafty in a quad opteron, searches anything between
>16 -21 ply.
>
>Would there be any point in crafty having a function which would give an average
>ply search for the whole game. At least this way you would have a way to compare
>different versions of crafty, and same versions of crafty on different hardware,
>regarding ply search.
>
>
>also if in one game the average was 19.3 ply for example how much variation
>would you expect between different games, on the same time and hardware. ?
>
>
>duncan

I think this is more useful for test suites where you are trying to
see average main search ply reached and average maximum ply whether
main search or quiescence per position and across the test suite given
fixed time searches.

This is what I calculate.



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