Author: José Carlos
Date: 10:09:30 03/02/00
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On March 01, 2000 at 11:48:39, Colin Frayn wrote: >>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 I don't think so. A program with a very simple evaluation will produce more cutoffs due equal eval (for example, all moves that don't win/lose material have the same eval). The program would sure be very stupid, but would search deeper than normal-evaluation programs. Just my opinion. José C.
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