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

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 16:29:03 05/25/00

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>I'm simply continuing the point of this thread, namely, you noticed that as
>depth increases, the number of draws increases and the number of wins decreases.
>Your conclusion is that this behavior is due to unequal depths. But wouldn't it
>be interesting if the behavior also occurred with equal depths?

The behaviour cannot occurr for equal depths _unless_ for
"12 <=> 12" the scoring rates of White and Black suddenly
become far different from 50%.

Remember: in the "X+1 <=> X" case, the number of losses for
"X+1" remained roughly constant and only the numbers of wins
and draws changed.

=Ernst=



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