Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:43:12 11/18/99
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On November 18, 1999 at 15:38:56, James Robertson wrote: >On November 18, 1999 at 14:34:24, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>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. > >This is not true..... if a program does more extensions then another program, it >'sees' more with each ply, but each ply takes longer. > >For instance, a game with 8-ply Fritz and 8-ply CM would be a pushover for CM >because it sees a lot more with each ply. True. I was assuming that by some stroke of magic we could have programs report plies actually searched and not use extensions that search more deeply in special areas like exchanges, etc.
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