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Subject: Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf.

Author: Michael Neish

Date: 17:41:13 05/24/00

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>The idea is ok, but I don't like the concept of playing program X vs itself
>with different depths.  Your conclusion can easily be right for Fritz, but
>wrong for other programs...  It would be hard to draw conclusions based on
>testing only one program that is known to be very fast but not very 'smart'.

Interesting comment.  As a novice in this field I would have said that Fritz 6,
being "not very smart", has to rely on the benefit of deeper searches more than
a program with more knowledge, say Hiarcs.

So if diminishing returns are observed in Fritz'z behaviour, whose strength is
search depth (if it's a dumb program), does it follow that it will be observed
more so with programs containing more knowledge?

Cheers,

Mike.

• Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf. Robert Hyatt 21:02:30 05/24/00
  • Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf. blass uri 21:31:57 05/24/00
    • Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf. Michael Neish 01:19:42 05/25/00
      • Re: A New Self-Play Experiment -- Diminishing Returns Shown with 95% Conf. blass uri 02:19:00 05/25/00

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