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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