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Subject: Re: Whats the expert opinion?

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 12:42:19 03/10/00

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I am not mathematician neither programmer, but I presume having enough common
sense to say that:
a)if a so called knowledgeable program -good or bad- is one with more lines of
code than a no-knowledgeable program, that means it takes more time for each
move to evaluate and so with more time has a better chance to reach the critical
deep in plys that can give it a relevant better output.
b) on the contrary, a more tactical program, more based in search techniques
than in algorithms, will tend to fall in a decreasing rate of profit with more
time as much a deeper search for an already deep search has less meaning than a
deeper search for a non-deep search.
Of course all this is very debatable. Is there a critical number of plys that
produces dramatic improvement if you reach there with more time?  Has sense the
notion of "decreasing profit" when just one better move discovered by a deeper
search can make all the difference?
Etc
Fernando



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