Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:50:31 02/04/05
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On February 04, 2005 at 10:18:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 04, 2005 at 06:43:24, S J J wrote: > >>When a program reports a ply count, is it the number of ply that have the moves >>100% generated without pruning, or the deepest node that is checked with >>extensions, or something different? >> >>Steve > > >Depends on the program. Generally accepted practice is to report the number of >plies searched full-width not counting extensions or q-search. Some programs >(such as Junior) use "ply" in a different way which can be misleading if you >compare plies between two programs. Usually it is not full width because of null move pruning. There are a lot of program that use other pruning ideas. Uri
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