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Subject: Re: DB just another program

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 12:33:44 01/27/00

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On January 27, 2000 at 02:45:39, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>First, a postulate: Any increase in *search depth* will correlate to a ratings
>increase.  I believe this to be a fairly linear curve.  This will never give
>diminishing returns.

This is a very big assumption right there.  Hard to believe that the rating
difference between a pair of programs searching one ply vs two ply will give the
same rating difference as programs searching nine vs ten ply and as programs
searching 30 vs 31 ply.



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