Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:31:09 01/27/00
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On January 27, 2000 at 18:24:30, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >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. :) That's not the time I was talking about. I was talking about waiting until a faster chip comes along. So, if chess is 3x on each ply and computers are 2x on each year, we'll have to wait a year and a half instead of a year to get the next ply by power alone.
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