Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 08:05:42 03/30/00
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>Do you ever see DarkThought require a branching factor of 10-15 for occasional >positions? Yes, occasionally every chess program seems to exhibit this kind of behaviour -- including "DarkThought". =Ernst= >>"DarkThought WCCC'99" does unlimited recapture extensions >>(in Hitech style, i.e., capture bringing score close back to >>root value) with a full ply increase. Yet, its effective >>branching factor remains smaller than 2.5 in iteration #12. >> >>00:03:08 11.01 e5 Bg3 Be7 Nh4 Ba6 Bxa6 Rxa6 Qd3 Rb6 Qxh7 =-0.88 #61077398 >>00:07:22 12.01 e5 Bg3 Be7 Nh4 Ba6 Bxa6 Rxa6 Qd3 Nc5 Qxh7 =-0.95 #142815058 >> >>That's why I like to speak of "scalable search" in connection >>with "DarkThought" ... :-) >> >>=Ernst= >> >>P.S. >>WWW pages of "DarkThought" at URL >>http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/dt/.
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