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Subject: Re: Verified Null-Move Pruning, ICGA 25(3)

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 04:00:19 11/22/02

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On November 22, 2002 at 06:52:57, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>Many things are not that obvious. Please read the "Conclusions" section for
>other algorithms I tried but were inferior to the presented algorithm.
>
>One interesting point is that at depth 8, the size of the tree constructed by
>vrfd R=2 was slightly larger than std R=2; at depth 9, vrfd constructed a
>smaller tree, and the gap widens as we search deeper (see Figure 4). So, I
>believe than on every program, starting from a certain depth, vrfd R=3 will
>construct much smaller trees in comparison to std R=2. And the benefit will
>increase as we search deeper.
>

You didn't expect this? It's fairly logical. vrfd R=3 is the same as R=3
below the first fail high. If you search deeper, you get bigger and bigger
parts of the tree that are done with R=3 instead of R=2, so you'll get
smaller trees at some point.

--
GCP



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