Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:02:34 01/05/03
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On January 05, 2003 at 23:21:40, Russell Reagan wrote: >It's probably best not to, since it is a linear improvement to an exponential >problem. Where the real improvements in playing strength will come from are >exponential improvements to the exponential problem (like null-move knocking >that branching factor down). Of course, I'm sure you already know this, and this >is your clever way of making others think about it for themselves and discover >the answer on their own, giving us all a greater sense of accomplishment and >self worth (not to mention saving us a great deal of time) ;-) Yes, I agree with this. The real improvement comes in doing new stuff, not in making the old stuff a few percent faster. Which is why I brought this up. If I could decrease bf by a few percent I'd get more speedup than I would by performance twiddling for years. bruce
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