Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 12:17:31 10/14/99
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On October 14, 1999 at 14:41:11, leonid wrote: >On October 14, 1999 at 09:40:23, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: > >>It's a time setting. >>After Hiarcs reaches the number of plies that are indicated here it will do it's >>move. >>BTW a ply is a half move (move white or move black). So fixed depth 6 plies >>means that after calculating all possible moves for 6 plies (3 moves) Hiarcs >>will execute the best move he found up to that time. >> >>Makes it e.g. weaker in the endgame. >> >>Jeroen ;-} > >But are you sure about this? Could Hiarcs, even if you indicated >"fixed depth", go more deeply to see for so called "extensions"? Yes. All programs do some kind of extensions, so that a 6-ply search is really more than 6-ply much of the time. Jeremiah
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