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As the thread Derek points to indicates, the strength setting is a ply
setting. Given that this is true, I hypothesized that at lower strength
levels, ZOG would not take forever to make a move with the thinking time
set to forever. So I lowered the strength, set thinking time to forever,
and let ZOG play itself. It made moves very quickly. When I raised the
strength, it made moves less quickly but still fairly rapidly compared to
forever. So experiment corroborates the claim that the strength setting is
a plies setting. So my claim that ZOG has no plies setting may be false.
But it was certainly not a non sequitur.