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Subject: Re: Have You looked at Deep Blue logs?!

Author: blass uri

Date: 02:50:02 01/18/00

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On January 17, 2000 at 09:58:10, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>I am not sure this is correct. Are you saying when Crafty searches 19 plies with
>nullmove R=2, it must search 17 plies without nullmove? As far as I know without
>nullmove and other pruning tricks your branching factor is 4,5 and with nullmove
>it is 2,5. I don't think you can simply subtract R at any depth. I'm not sure
>though. It's easy to test anyway...

The branching factor is not so small at least for programs that do not use
recursive null move prunning.

I do not see small branching factor of 2.5 or 3 for crafty in the middle game at
big depthes.

Uri



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