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Subject: Re: NULL move question

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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