Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 22:18:21 05/22/00
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On May 22, 2000 at 23:02:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 22, 2000 at 22:24:20, Mark Young wrote: > >>You are wrong, there is a lot of "say" that shows as you increase ply depth the >>next ply you increase gets fewer and fewer rating points. >> > > >Where? IE I have seen this _said_ several times. But I have never seen it >_shown_. Two good examples to the contrary are the "crafty goes deep" and >"dark thought goes deep" published in the JICCA. Both suggest that at least >until we reach depth 15/16, each additional ply is revealing new and more >important information about a position... and resulting in steadily improving >play... > >I think the programs are getting stronger every year, even if nothing is changed >but faster hardware... and it is reasonably linear... so far. I've started doing some experiments to determine if there is a rating increase falloff with longer times and the initial results seem to confirm my guess that there will indeed be a falloff due to an increasing number of draws. So far I've done mostly Crafty self-play tests at short time controls and only few test games with other programs and longer time controls so the results aren't definite. I'll try to do more testing but I've been busy lately.
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