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Subject: Re: ICGA_J (June) self-play information

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 22:13:58 09/05/01

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On September 05, 2001 at 07:53:50, guy haworth wrote:

>
>In the Ken-Thompson-themed ICGA Journal (June, 2001), Ernst Heinz published his
>latest self-play experiment results.
>
>Engines with different guaranteed-depth(?)-parameters were pitted against each
>other.
>
>The matches of the experimetn (3,000 games each) suggest that:
>
>  12-ply was  84 ELO points better than 11 ply
>  11-ply was  92 ELO points better than 10 ply
>  10-ply was 115 ELO points better than  9 ply
>
>Fairly strong indications of decreasing returns from increasing search.

What new this time? Decreasing returns has been proven already in some tests,
that CSS magazine has published! But can anybody find formula to get the size
of decreasing returns?

Jouni



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