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Subject: Re: A ratio of exponentials

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 15:24:30 01/27/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 17:40:45, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 27, 2000 at 17:37:05, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>[snip]
>>Is there something simple I'm just missing here?
>
>time.
>
>If chess has a branching factor of 50, and speed has an increase of 2x, we just
>wait 25 times as long.

Which is exactly my point.  Playing an actual game, you can't wait 25 times as
long.  You still only have 3 min/move (or whatever the time control is).

Increased speed will have diminishing returns with respect to the time used. :)



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