Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:47:04 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 18:35:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >Here is a "hint"> :) > >what makes you think that in a 10 ply search, where there are N zug positions, >that in a search space 10 times bigger there are more than 10*N zug positions? > >That is point 1. Point 2... there _are_ more zug positions overall. But there >are also more non-zug positions. And for a zug position to screw up and then >cause a key score to change is no more probable in a tree with M positions and N >zug positions than it is in a tree with 100M positions and 100N zug positions... > >Everything grows at the same exponential rate... and stay exactly proportional >to each other... *Ding* The 40 watt lightbulb comes on. ;-)
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