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Subject: Re: DB will never play with REBEL, they simple are afraid no to do well

Author: Dan Newman

Date: 01:21:02 10/16/99

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On October 16, 1999 at 03:54:35, Ratko V Tomic wrote:

>> yes, 3 is pretty typical, although it steadily drops as material
>> comes off.
>
>I tried Crafty 16.6 within Fritz UI (default engine settings, 64Mb hash) in a
>middle game position with 38 avaliable moves. The depths tested were 10, 11 and
>12 plies. The effective branching factor (calculated from the total nodes N it
>displayed at the end of search as: B=ln(N)/ln(D)) ranged from 4.5 to 4.7.

The equation should be B=exp(ln(N)/D), which will likely give you
values closer to 3.

-Dan.



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