Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 12:21:42 12/07/05
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On December 07, 2005 at 07:25:26, Tord Romstad wrote: >On December 07, 2005 at 05:31:51, Barry Culp wrote: > >>On December 06, 2005 at 23:11:38, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>results of more matches >>> >>>Rybka(2 plies)-Movei(4 plies) 12.5-7.5 >>>Rybka(3 plies)-Movei(5 plies) 7.5-12.5 >>>Rybka(4 plies)-Movei(6 plies) 11-9 >>>Rybka(5 plies)-Movei(7 plies) 10.5-9.5 >> >>What's the point of running these handicap matches ? Please explain > >It is commonly believed that the difference between a search to >depth N and a search to depth (N+d) is less significant when N is >big. This seems intuitively plausible, but as far as I know we >don't have much experimental support for this hypothesis. > Are you familiar with the fixed-depth matches that Ernst Heinz ran with Fritz about 5 years ago? He played several hundred d vs d+1 fixed depth games. I don't have the data in front of me, but I do recall that there was strong evidence of diminishing returns with increased depth. -Peter >Experiments like Uri's could help us to learn more about this. > >Tord
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