Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:31:56 12/20/04
Go up one level in this thread
On December 20, 2004 at 18:27:37, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 20, 2004 at 18:22:24, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>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. > >Only writing evaluation that only count wood will not be enough to beat >shredder depth. A simple PVS with null move and wood counting only will get 19 plies in a few seconds. Is that what you mean by pruning? >You need also to have some pruning for that purpose. > >Uri
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.