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Subject: Re: Will TACTIC's eventually REFUTE! Positional play?

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 16:11:32 01/28/02

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This is a quote from Chess Skill in Man and Machine.

The authors of BELLE tried some experients with different versions of their own
program. Although this is directly related to the main topic, it does refine
some of the points pointed out by the above post.
They played many different games between the same versions of their program only
with different dept of searches and found the following:


             Perf   P4    P5    P6    P7    P8    P9
             ----------------------------------
          P4 1235    x    5      .5    0     0     0
          P5 1570   15    x     3.5    3    .5     0
          P6 1826   19.5 16.5    x     4   1.5   1.5
          P7 2031   20   17    16      x   5     4
          P8 2208   20   19.5 18.5   15     x    5.5
          P9 2328   20   20   18.5   16    4.5    x

Each side played 10 games with each other for over 300 games in all.
Most interesting is that the rating increases seemed to dimish with the upper
plys of the game going from 370 points from ply 4 to ply 5 down to 120 points
between ply 8 and ply 9. Maybe someone can expolate these numbers and give us
an idea of what the ply ratings will be at even greater depts.
Bill



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