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Subject: Re: Ply Depth and Strength (what is PLY??)

Author: Luis E. Alvarado

Date: 11:49:48 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.

Pardon my ignorance, but is PLY the number of move levels the computers
estimates. That is PLY 1 - All first moves possible,etc ..



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