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Subject: Re: Nodes per Second. Say for known chess games.

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 01:57:07 10/26/99

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On October 25, 1999 at 10:33:44, leonid wrote:

>On October 25, 1999 at 06:54:33, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>What is your native language please?
>>
>>What I was trying to say :
>>
>>Rebel is a chess-program
>>Crafty is a chess-program
>>Fritz is a chess-program
>>
>>they all play _one_ game (chess).
>>
>>Sorry, I really only wanted to help you with your English. Cause mine isn't that
>>great either.
>>
>>--Tec
>
>Thanks! I feel that we all need this. My mother language is Russian. If
>everybody and everywhere was so picky about hues and semantics I will be not in
>this trouble on the first place. Problem is that "fixed depth" in chess jargon
>don't go after clear logic. Logic says that this should signify fixed number of
>plys no more, no less. Mistake! Since somebody indicated me this funny surprise
>I never found my way around the problem.
>
>With my respect,
>Leonid.

"Fixed-depth" actually does mean "search to a fixed depth".  If some program has
an option that claims "fixed-depth" but isn't, they should call it something
else.

Dave



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