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Subject: Re: Playing strength of simple eval programs?

Author: Colin Frayn

Date: 08:48:39 03/01/00

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>I do not think that there is a speed benefit about plies because ny intuition
>tells me that the program is going to have a bad order of moves and the fact
>that it search more nodes per second is not going to help it to search deeper
>because the disatvantage from bad order of moves is more important.>

You're absolutely right.  In fact you'll probably find that it serches fewer
plies in the same time than a program with a modest but accurate positional
evaluation function.

Colin

• Re: Playing strength of simple eval programs? José Carlos 10:09:30 03/02/00
• Re: Playing strength of simple eval programs? Dave Gomboc 16:36:42 03/01/00

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