Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 13:29:06 02/26/01
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>I not so sure about my figure 8.5 anymore. In fact I think the >probability that it is correct is pretty low... I locked on >that solution immediately and then it's hard to change >ones mind. So concerning the theoretical number derived >from a branching factor, forget what I said (I'll maybe >come back). My advice is still to use measured numbers. >This is what I do myself. It has the additional benefit >of avoiding my sloppy calculations :) I think the point of the original message was to make a decent test that measures the speed of movegen+makemove. So, if modern chess programs have effective branching factor of about 3 (maybe 2-4) it is wise to generate all moves and make and unmake three of them. This has nothing to do with critical AB tree but normal searching conditions. I'd guess 3 would be good approximation. Severi
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