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Subject: Re: DB just another program

Author: walter irvin

Date: 10:33:08 01/28/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 15:33:44, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>On January 27, 2000 at 02:45:39, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>First, a postulate: Any increase in *search depth* will correlate to a ratings
>>increase.  I believe this to be a fairly linear curve.  This will never give
>>diminishing returns.
>
>This is a very big assumption right there.  Hard to believe that the rating
>difference between a pair of programs searching one ply vs two ply will give the
>same rating difference as programs searching nine vs ten ply and as programs
>searching 30 vs 31 ply.

the point you make here is a very big point ,people seem to miss this .

i believe the difference between 30 and 31 ply would be almost zero .



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