Author: Rafael Andrist
Date: 01:09:29 06/24/01
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On June 23, 2001 at 22:24:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 23, 2001 at 20:02:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >> >>I do not know much details on schach, but if you give it an entire >>night, then it still will show the same bad branching factor as >>we were used to in 1997. > > >What in the name of heaven are you talking about? "bad branching factor >we were used to in 1997?" In 1996 I was using R=2 null-move, as was Bruce >and others. _we_ were not used to any huge branching factor. My branching >factor today is almost _exactly_ what it was in 1996... > > >My branching factor also remains fairly constant regardless of the depth. >It makes no sense to me that it would get smaller and smaller as you go >deeper. Because eventually it would have to go below 1 and the search >would actually get _faster_ as you go deeper. And that is fully nonsense. > But the BF get's clearly smaller if the search goes deeper. At least with a full-window-search. It's also clear that this process isn't linear. So your second argument that it would ge below zero is nonsense itself. We live in a completly non-linear world! Rafael B. Andrist
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