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Subject: Re: Novice question on reporting of ply count

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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