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Subject: Re: In chess we will reach diminishing returns just like in Checckers 1

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 01:47:31 10/29/03

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On October 29, 2003 at 03:15:23, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>"Experiments in Chinook show that there comes a point where increased search
>depth provides diminishing returns."

Many chess programmers agree that the search- and the eval- part of an engine
have to be tuned so they work optimal together. (like you can throw out certain
parts in the eval since they're now covered with a better/faster search etc)

Now you take an engine, which is optimized for todays hardware to reach a
certain depth in typical middlegame positions and make the experiment of
increasing search depth. Why can't the effect of "diminishing returns" not be
explained by the fact that search and eval are no longer working together
optimal?

It seems to me that in all these experiments which try to prove the effect of
deminishing returns, the errors bars are bigger than the effect they want to
prove.

Sargon



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