Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:23:22 01/29/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 16:48:35, Dan Andersson wrote:
>There are some possible reasons for not detecting diminished returns. Three that
>immediately pop to mind are:
> Odd/Even discrepancies.
> Big depth needed.
> Low quality in chess evaluation functions.
>The last reason is briefly illuminated in the article: Search Versus Knowledge
>in Game-Playing Programs Revisited, by Andreas Junghanns, Jonathan Schaeffer. As
>an ordinary chessgame is longer than both othello and checkers games the
>combination lower decision quality of chess and longer game makes decisive
>errors mor likely. Then chess is a hotter game than the others, maybe so much
>hotter that diminishing return never materializes.
>
>Regards Dan Andersson
Looks like for pratical programming the existence of dimishing returns does not
matter at all.
Let's talk about this again in 10 years. ;)
Christophe
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