Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 15:00:33 09/14/00
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On September 14, 2000 at 16:43:24, Dann Corbit wrote: <snip> >>I do not see the point of searching to 16 plies. > >Stop at two plies then. Deeper is better. > >>It is easy to search faster if you do more pruning. > >But more error prone. If you search 20 plies by pruning but lose in 5 moves >because of something you pruned out, it's not such a great idea. But if you can >search 20 plies by extensive pruning and always get the same answers as a brute >force search, then you have found something spectacular. Alpha-Beta (in >particular) gets the same answer as exhaustive search, and only requres sqrt(n) >tests provided you order the moves correctly. I you could do that, you wouldn't need to search at all :-)
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