Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:26:03 11/09/01
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On November 09, 2001 at 08:45:08, stuart taylor wrote: >x+1 I understand. Better vision gives a better chance of playing the better >moves, or atleast greater ideas. But sometimes "a little knowledge is bad" >But still, perhaps in such a case, if it is very clearly that, It may not matter >if the stronger program loses. >But should be very rare. >S.Taylor I remember from Ernst Heinz's investigations of diminishing returns that it clearly happens that depth x beats depth x+1 in games of the same program(he used Fritz6) The number of wins of depth x against x+1 did not increase when x increased but the number of draws increased and it was the reason for the deminishing returns. It means that the fact that the weaker program wins in some games does not mean that the weaker program had more knowledge in a specific position. Uri
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