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Subject: Re: 2 points Chandler One Point for you to Ponder

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:49:08 01/16/05

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On January 16, 2005 at 01:15:36, chandler yergin wrote:

>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...

This is _absolutely_ wrong.  Any good integral calculus book will show you why.

hint:

The limit of X = 1/2 + 1/4 + ... + 1/2^n for N=infinity is exactly one.  Theory
is quite clear there.

Now if you mean "practically you will never get there" then you would be right.
But if you do the 1/2 step enough times, you will get there.  It is just that
"enough" will take forever.

>
>BUT; you will get close enough for Practical purposes.
>
>STOP YOUR CRAP!

Learn some math...


>
>
>>>
>>>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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