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- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!mem
- From: mem@world.std.com (Jeff Lesser)
- Subject: Re: Mchess Pro
- Message-ID: <BzonIB.GIu@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec17.212902.22413@osf.org> <1grateINN9dq@pith.uoregon.edu> <zeng-221292115822@zeng.apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:51:46 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- zeng@apple.com (T. Zeng) writes:
-
- >In article <1grateINN9dq@pith.uoregon.edu>, kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin
- >Gowen) wrote:
- >>
- >>
- >> Seriously, don't even *think* about running M-Chess Pro on this primitive
- >> system. It wants 12 Meg to run its hash tables, will take 4Meg if that's
- >> all that's available, and God only knows what it'll do with only 1Meg.
- >> Will it even run? Please consider upgrading, if you can afford it. You'll
- >> get a lot more "oomph" out of MChess if you do.
-
- >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.
-
- >I am reading the book 'All the right moves' by the author of the chess
- >program
- >Hi Tech. I would like to find out how deep M-chess ( or any chess program
- >that has similar strength ) ?
-
-
- >---Tie
-
- >> -kevin
- >> kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu
-
-
- MChess Pro searches less deeply than most programs, but "sees" much more
- at each search ply. It finds very deep mates in very shallow searches,
- for example.
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