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Subject: Re: Hydr's KN/s

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:37:19 07/07/05

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On July 07, 2005 at 14:14:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On July 07, 2005 at 13:56:04, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On July 07, 2005 at 05:05:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On July 05, 2005 at 14:37:46, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>The logfile does not consider the depth on-chip at the leaves.  About 6 plies
>>>>more.  So consider it really to be 16-18 plies.
>>>
>>>This is quite simply completely wrong, and contradicts what Hsu and Campbell
>>>published.
>>>
>>>http://sjeng.org/ftp/deepblue.pdf
>>
>>I read the paper.  I was referring to this:
>>"This typically results in 4- or 5-ply searches plus quiescence in middlegame
>>positions and somewhat deeper searches in endgames."
>>
>>I did not see the contradiction.  Can you please point it out ot me?
>
>The first number in the logs is the combined depth (excluding quiescence, but
>nobody counts that). The nominal depth was around 12 ply for the combined
>search, not 16-18.

Then it represents the estimated maximum combined depth (last column of table
2)?



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