Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 15:01:15 07/30/99
I noticed that several of the top programs will initially do a brute force followed by a selective search. For instance, when it shows a 9/30 in it`s search, does this mean that it`s performing 9 ply brute force and then performing up to 30 ply selective to complete its search for the position? I`am using the Hiarcs 7.32 program! So, getting back to my question: If my program performs a 9 ply brute force search, then this means it`s searching every possible move on the chess board to complete a 9 ply brute force. This seems that it would need to search billions of moves at times to complete such a task that comes from a brute force search. This seems almost impossible with a home PC to do this kind of search with a time control of 40/2hrs., but i know that it is doing this very task as this is what it shows! How many moves or positions does it look at to perform a 9 ply brute force?
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