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Subject: Re: Depth vs Time

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:05:28 06/25/02

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On June 24, 2002 at 19:05:22, Steve Coladonato wrote:

>In that case, then would not the use of a selective search be considered an
>inferior algorithm to use.

No, unless you are comparing at the same ply depth. But the
selective searcher will get deeper faster.

>I don't know how each program evaluates its score
>for a given position and I do know that the evaluation can be tweaked via
>configuration files.  So if the configuration files were ruled out such that
>each program scored the position the same,

Probably impossible. For many programs, there is a direct link
between search and evaluation, meaning that if you'd alter the
evaluation, different tradeoffs may need to be taken in the search.

>would not the faster (to a given ply
>depth) program win?

No, if it prunes too much it may make mistakes.

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GCP



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