Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:26:50 03/31/00
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On March 31, 2000 at 19:21:12, blass uri wrote: >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. That is an excellent point! I had not thought it through before, but it is obvious that you are right.
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