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

Author: Mark Rawlings

Date: 15:06:27 10/29/03

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On October 29, 2003 at 06:52:55, martin fierz wrote:

>On October 29, 2003 at 04:47:31, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>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."
>
>[snip]
>
>>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.
>
>true for the paper of schaeffer, not true for my own experiments with my
>checkers program. i don't know about chess though...
>
>cheers
>  martin

Just curious Martin, but how is the "handheld" checkers program coming along?  I
was hoping it would be for the palm, but if I remember correctly, you decided on
the pocket pc...  Would the program include any endgame tablebases?

Thanks,

Mark




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