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- From: 928s4@leland.Stanford.EDU (Benjamin Sloss)
- Subject: Re: Mchess Pro
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.221915.20819@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 22:19:15 GMT
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- zeng@apple.com (T. Zeng) writes:
- >Does anybody know how deep M-Chess Pro search ? From the rating it has,
- >it seems to me it should search about 8-9 ply or deeper. But that will
- >require pretty fast machine.
- >
- >Or it is because the program has pretty good evaluation function so that
- >a shallower search will give a very good result.
-
- At 3 min/move, it will typically search 5-6 full-width ply on my 486/33.
- It has quite a few selective extensions, however, and will examine check/
- capture/threat extensions many ply more.
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