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Subject: Re: In the year 2015, PC's will be fast as Deeper Blue??? (bold prediction)

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 02:12:10 03/02/00

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On March 02, 2000 at 04:45:46, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On March 02, 2000 at 03:58:13, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On March 02, 2000 at 01:42:43, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>
>>>Nowadays programs hit a deeper ply depth than DB. See the log files
>>>on the IBM site.
>>>
>>2)I understood also from hyatt's posts that you need to add 3-4 plies to the
>>depth in the logfiles of the IBM site to get the real depth.
>
>Actually, it's more than that.  For this search:
>
>depth   score    time   PV
>11(6)	48	T=204	Qa7...
>
>You have a depth of 11 PLUS *six* plies of hardware depth.  So a total depth of
>_17_.  That seems to be about the average depth of most of their searches.
>That's a bit beyond PC programs.  And we know they were extending probably more
>than PC programs also.

Is there an official statement of this?

It's all not so clear.

We also don't know which or how many extensions are done. The same
applies for most chess programs BTW. We can only guess.

Ed



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