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Subject: Re: Fractionial R for Null Move?

Author: Mathieu Pagé

Date: 16:31:18 08/15/04

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On August 15, 2004 at 18:58:06, Bruce Cleaver wrote:

>What if the optimal value is 2.5?
>
>At any rate, any value you plug in would need experimental justification.  The
>search savings just might overcome the blunder rate, just like the integer
>values.

Hi Bruce,

You're right in this case you'll have the experiment, but i'm sure whatever you
do you're experiment will tell you 2 is better that 3, or the inverse(3 better
than 2). I can not see how an radom value of R would be any better.

Mathieu P.



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