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

Author: martin fierz

Date: 01:35:06 10/30/03

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On October 29, 2003 at 18:06:27, Mark Rawlings wrote:

>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

hi mark,

oh darn :-) the handheld checkers program is not coming along at all at the
moment. i have it on the todo list but since i started writing a chess program
recently, checkers has definitely taken a back seat. sorry...

cheers
  martin



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