Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:07:34 02/04/05
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On February 04, 2005 at 10:50:31, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Technically null-move is full-width, but reduced depth. I don't throw out _any_ moves and not search them, so the search itself is full-width. I just search some to reduced depth.
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