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Subject: Re: diminishing returns w/ increased search depth?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:00:09 01/28/00

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On January 29, 2000 at 01:25:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>in all those cool graphs dudes take not take into account a couple of
>things.
>
>First of all we had hashtables, then nullmove then now EGTB,
>way better books recently, some work done at eval everywhere.
>Some like me are even busy making a huge eval.
>
>Much of the 'lineair curve' so far that some want to show as evidence is
>for largest part because of quality advances in the software, *not* the
>hardware.
>
>If you put an old program at nowadays hardware, then those don't play
>as well.
>
>I'm always surprised that such improvements in software get neglected
>by graph makers.

It's too abstract.  How do you put some cool new pruning algorithm into a pie
chart?  If you can't draw it, it doesn't exist.
;-)
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