Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 09:56:36 06/18/03
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On June 18, 2003 at 04:24:00, martin fierz wrote: >better move ordering reduces the branching factor! you can easily see that from >best/worst case which is sqrt(N)(best) and N(worst) as branching factor for >alpha beta. that's not a constant speed improvement then... Hi Martin, Sorry if I wasn't very clear. I was wondering if pvs/mtd(f) with perfect move ordering led to a decrease in the branching factor over alpha-beta with perfect move ordering, or only a constant speedup. Better move ordering does lead to a reduced branching factor, but I was wondering about the situation where all 3 algorithms had perfect move ordering already. So, I am not talking about the improvement where you go from an N branching factor to a sqrt(N) branching factor, but when you go from alpha-beta with perfect move ordering, to pvs/mtd(f) with perfect move ordering. Does this make it more clear? Thanks, Russell
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