Author: blass uri
Date: 16:21:12 03/31/00
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On March 31, 2000 at 15:40:29, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 31, 2000 at 15:24:30, Stephen Ham wrote: > >>Dear Dan and Uri, >> >>Thanks for the valuable input. This is good iformation and I appreciate your >>kind help. >> >>I guess, in my ignorance, I didn't believe there'd be much difference between 16 >>ply and 17 ply. But since you gentlemen think that the difference is >>substantial, then we'll continue without having the chess engines reveal their >>2nd and 3rd choices. > >There is (according to two studies) about a 15% chance that a computer program >will make a better choice by going one ply deeper. It is possible that by the >time we are out to 16 plies, the percentage is less than that, but it would >certainly be tangible. There is about 15% chance that it is going to do a different choice and not a better choice. The different choice is more times a better choice than a worse choice but is not always a better choice. Uri
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