Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 22:25:30 02/09/02
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On February 09, 2002 at 22:31:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >I simply say there is no evidence to support a diminishing return theory. It >might happen, or it might not. Experimental data from today's programs, >searching to depths they might reach in the next couple of years, suggests that >no such diminishing return occurs for at least the next few plies. I think you're confusing diminishing returns in playing games with diminishing rate of finding a new best move at higher ply depths. Just because a program picks a new move at ply 15 over the move it had at ply 14 doesn't mean the game outcome will change. Sometimes it will, but it is not as likely as a new move found at ply 4 changing the game outcome over a move found at ply 3.
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