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Subject: Re: Starting position to 30 ply

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:38:26 06/05/01

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On June 05, 2001 at 11:38:46, Dan Andersson wrote:

>>On June 04, 2001 at 22:45:44, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>> It is so close to perfectly ordered that it can be called "perfectly ordered"
>>> with no danger of being wrong enough that it can be measured.
>>
>>Let's hope that no mathematician ever quotes you on this. ;)
>>
>Actually its pretty correct :) To find the perfectly ordered graph, not tree,
>you need a 30-ply mini-max search and storeage space to save it and then a
>backtracking seach to minimize nodecount. That will take a lot of time. And the
>nearest we can come to that minimal graph, currently, is MTD(f) with ETC or
>ETC^2 enhancement. In other words, the only thing to beat MTDf is enhanced MTDf.
>
>Regards Dan Andersson


In this case, I am not even sure enhanced MTD(f) will be better.  Because yoyu
start off with a _Perfect_ estimate of the final score (0.00).  No re-searches,
no nothing.  Just blazing thru the minimal tree over and over and over...



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