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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 7.32. Fixed Depth. What it is?

Author: Tina Long

Date: 20:59:32 10/26/99

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On October 26, 1999 at 22:30:12, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I would like to know exactly what "fixed depth" signify in Hiarcs. Had
>completely contradictory explanation of what it actually mean. Do this really
>signify that logic will search the position exactly at depth that you indicated,
>or still it can go dipper because of so called "extensions"?
>
>Thanks for response!
>Leonid.

Hi Leonid,
I may be a bit wrong but I think it means:

Say you set fixed depth to 11

The program will do a search as it always does, including extensions to say 18
or 20 ply.

After it has finished searching all moves at the 11th ply (+ extensions) it will
make its move.

This is not a full "brute force" search to 11 plys, it still ignores lines that
it dismissed as terrible in the earlier plies.  It is a normal search to 11
plies (+ extensions).

Hi Leonard,
Tina Long



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