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Subject: Re: Branching factor, etc

Author: Omid David

Date: 06:56:21 08/30/02

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On August 29, 2002 at 23:03:43, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On August 29, 2002 at 22:50:53, Brian Richardson wrote:
>[snip]
>>Is move sorting turned off in Yace, GLC and Gnu for the depth = 6 searchs?
>
>Pretty irrelevant since all of them show a branching factor between 2 and 3 for
>the opening position.
>
>The program described by the OP had a branching factor of 6-8, IIRC.
>
>IOW, something is clearly amiss.
>
>I wonder how often the OP finds the requested position in the hash table.
>Usually, hash table alone would be enough to prevent a branch factor that
>terrible.

How do you calculate branching factor here?



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