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Subject: Re: Proving something is better

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:47:00 12/18/02

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On December 18, 2002 at 13:47:41, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 18, 2002 at 13:10:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Time by itself is also misleading.
>>
>>It would not be hard to search the PV quickly and then bog down on refuting
>>the rest of the moves, which would allow time-only to produce a false
>>impression.
>
>How is this going to give you faster times exactly?
>

If you search to time of solution, you get one time.  If you search to the
end of that iteration, you get a much _longer_ time.  If the algorithm breaks
the search as I explained, either time is misleading by itself...


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