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Subject: Re: Ply Depth and Strength

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:34:24 11/18/99

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On November 18, 1999 at 14:06:35, Joshua Lee wrote:

>Hello  i was wondering who out there in CCC land is rated the highest would care
>to do an experiment? If so set Hiarcs 7.32 to a ply depth of 1 and go from
>there.... play lets say 4 to 10 games at each ply depth and write down your
>results. This would really tell us all possibly how strong at what ply the comp
>is. This way the speed of the computer is irrelevant.

It should be necessary to play at least one hundred games even to get a feel for
it.  *Especially* at those extremely shallow depths.

I suspect all top programs will be about the same for a given ply.  What this
interesting experiment would provide is a stronger measure of a program's
positional analysis because those programs that forged stronger positions would
prevail while those which rely purely on tactical prowess would fail.

However, it would take a lot of work to run it.  On the other hand, at shallow
ply depths, the moves would happen quickly.




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