Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:22:24 12/20/04
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On December 20, 2004 at 16:32:24, Jouni Uski wrote: >Shredder 8 reaches quite stunning averaga search dept. E.g. with only 15 >second/move average with Pentium 2400 and 128MB hash it averages 15,2 ply! For >comparison Fritz Bilbao and Gandalf 6 reach both same 12,7 ply. No wonder >Shredder beats them 13 - 7 and 14 - 6. Of course 2,5 ply is a lot difference! >Is there any amateur or pro engine, which can equal Shredder in depth - Junior's >half plys can be forgotten. I can write an evaluation function that only counts the wood. It will beat Shredder's depth, but Shredder will easily kill it on a 1/10 as powerful machine all the time. I can write a chess program with a branching factor of 1 that searches 5000 plies in a heartbeat. But TSCP will beat it. How deep you search is not important unless you prune away the right stuff and keep what is valuable. A good chess program must search both deeply and intelligently.
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