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Subject: Re: Hydr's KN/s

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:51:56 07/07/05

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On July 07, 2005 at 14:37:19, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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)?

No, that's another matter. Maximum depth is rather meaningless.

Look at Page 5, 1)b)  for the statement that the nominal depth is 12 ply on
average. It's been a while since I read it but basically something like 12 (5)
meant 12 - 5 = 7 ply software, 5 ply hardware, and then extensions and quiescene
search.

--
GCP



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