Author: chandler yergin
Date: 22:15:36 01/15/05
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On January 15, 2005 at 23:19:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On January 15, 2005 at 20:24:04, chandler yergin wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2005 at 20:16:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 15, 2005 at 12:29:40, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>
>>>>New game,
>>>>{D]7k/8/8/8/8/8/N7/KB6 w - - 0 1
>>>>
>>>>Analysis by Shredder 8:
>>>>
>>>>1. +- (#29): 1.Kb2
>>>>2. +- (#30): 1.Nc3
>>>>3. +- (#30): 1.Nb4
>>>>4. +- (#30): 1.Bc2
>>>>5. +- (#30): 1.Bd3
>>>>6. +- (#31): 1.Nc1
>>>>7. +- (#31): 1.Be4
>>>>8. +- (#32): 1.Bf5
>>>>9. +- (#32): 1.Bg6
>>>>10. = (0.00): 1.Bh7
>>>>
>>>>(, 15.01.2005)
>>>>
>>>>Instantaneous! I don't care how 'deep' in the search.. once into the EGTB,
>>>>it's there!
>>>
>>>Completely irrelevant. You have to first _reach_ that position, and if you
>>>reach it wrongly, you reach it in a drawn position.
>>
>>
>>That's why the Analysis module seaches E-V-E-R-Y Move in a pV
>
>This would be much more interesting if you had any idea about what you are
>talking about. A disk I/O takes about 5ms. 20 egtb probes in a search will
>burn 1/10th of a second. 200 probes will burn a second. That is _not_
>instantaneous. For a program searching 2M nodes per second, the speed can slow
>down to 20,000 nodes per second easily given the right position.
Zeno's Paradox...
Let's say you are sitting next to your wife or girfriend...
You slide halfway to her...
Then you slide half way closer again...
Then get halfway again...
Theoretically, you will NEVER Reach her...
BUT; you will get close enough for Practical purposes.
STOP YOUR CRAP!
>>
>>If there are 50 "Possible" moves in a position.. it will search
>>deeper and deeper... Subject to your Alpha Beta Algorithm of course...
>>
>>Which may or not be correct...
>>
>>
>>Of course ya have to reach the position!
>>Depending on the Static Positional Values Programmed in...
>>in a Quiscent NON - Forcing position, and different engines may evaluate the
>>position differntly.
>>
>>Right? You know I'm right!
>
>Hardly...
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