Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:10:21 01/02/98
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On January 02, 1998 at 17:35:29, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>It's my understanding that Genius has a full width base.
>
>I understand. But I don't understand WHY this is your believe !
>
>I have always (for 10 years or more) believed in an asymmetric search.
>Strange that 2 persons can come to the opposite ideas...
Thorsten, I believe Don is right, and the first plies are full width.
This is not in contradiction with your feeling that the search is
asymetrical. But what you seem to underestimate is the fact that Genius
has a very good way of extending its search beyond the nominal full
width depth. And in this extended part I believe that you are right, it
is very asymetrical.
This is enough to make you believe it is asymetrical from begining to
end, because generally the extended search is way deeper than the full
width search, and has a great influence on the choice of the first move.
When 2 valuable people come to opposite ideas, maybe they should first
consider that nobody's wrong, instead of spending years in arguing. Hope
that you won't take this personal. The same for you, Don.
(We are just exchanging ideas for fun here, and I'm always surprised to
see very bitter words in others threads. I'm not talking about the two
of you)
And in reply to Don's post, I think that what he says about Genius is
maybe right.
Now I have to say that my point is that the asymetrical search idea
seems interesting to me. I'm not interested anymore in fighting about
wether Genius uses it or not.
So maybe now we could talk about what is good and what is bad in the
"AsySearch" idea, and how to implement it well. Because the way this
could be done is still unclear to me, although I can see potential
profit from using it (because of the safe lines it should be able to
produce).
Christophe
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