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Subject: Re: What is the branching factor for this position?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:04:37 08/09/00

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On August 09, 2000 at 15:59:24, leonid wrote:

>>I don't recall Ed ever calling his search brute force.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>If it is so, now I see why my branching factor is so miserable.
>
>I asked above question when I tried to solve this position by brute force. For
>black side I looked up to 10 plys deep and it took already 12 min 17 sec. Move
>was wrong.  Black knight goes to the position e2. And for finding right move I
>must go to the next 12 plys search. But this could take some next 6 hours. This
>is how my old question about branching factor came to me. It prohibit to my
>program to see very rapidly and reach far distance.

You're the only person in the entire world who does these "brute force"
searches.

-Tom



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