plies

Of course the length is limited to 17697 plies [3] due to Fide's 75-move rule.

Own-brand pizzas have skimpier and lower-quality toppings, sliced bread is poorly mixed, paper towels have fewer plies, etc.

Carbon fiber composite single-plies or tapes have a reduced, but still reasonably high, compressive strength.

The number of nodes visited grows exponentionally with the number of plies you look ahead.

I'm speaking entirely from a layman's view, so I'm curious why increasing the number of plies wouldn't work.

It's conceivable that the maximum number of plies (half-moves) you need is 218.

The key difference is that as compute power and available RAM have grown, it’s become possible to search much deeper and evaluate far more plies.

The Emma Maersk (which I am aware plies a different route, but just for comparison's sake) cruises at 25kts (46Km/h) and therefore takes about 5 days.

I think that the average chess game played between humans contributes between 20 and 40 new positions (note that a 30 move chess games has 60 plies).

But they ply, ironically, exactly the sort of rhetoric of fear that the right wing plies about terrorism -- somehow having an advance ability to request data capture == All lefties are going to be locked up.

Anecdotally, I kind of compare the quality of Sonnet 4.5 to that of a chess engine: it performs better when given more time to search deeper into the tree of possible moves ( more plies ).

Vladimir Kramnik in November 2006, the program ran on a personal computer containing two Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs, capable of evaluating only 8 million positions per second, but searching to an average depth of 17 to 18 plies in the middlegame.

You'll also need a "sort of traversal stack" so you can rewind if you get stuck several plies in.

Plywood is "plies" of wood veneer layered perpendicularly (cross-grained) to improve dimensional stability.

In this sort of context, "baller in San Francisco" (or any city) is code for "guy who plies women with alcohol until they can't say no".

I've always been curious if what Kasparov calls, "human intuition" by Deep Blue was merely Deep Blue being able to search more plies than any computer could before it.