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Subject: Re: The law of diminishing returns

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:29:18 07/12/02

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On July 12, 2002 at 16:25:48, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
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>If you leave maths and come back to chess, oops, the difficulties, deeper search
>depth or not, do never stop IMO. Ed always was thinking the same. He never
>believed in the doubling enthusiasm, and for good reasons.

Are you sure that you are interpreting Ed correctly?

By the time you have made a 60 ply search, if you have 15 plys of null move
reduction, you will still see 45 plies full width.  That will crush any human
and play chess that we simply cannot imagine.



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