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Subject: Re: 40.. Bc7 [was Re: Deep Blue--Part III]

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 06:07:42 05/11/98

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On May 11, 1998 at 08:53:35, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>
>On May 11, 1998 at 05:07:16, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>On May 11, 1998 at 02:50:40, Howard Exner wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>I applaud the move B-c7 which I doubt any other computer program
>>>would ever consider.
>>
>>"DarkThought" locks onto Bc7 in iteration #12 after roughly a minute
>>on a 600MHz Alpha-21164a and feels slightly positive (+0.3).
>
>Cool, so it can be calculated.

Looks like -- another poster pointed out that Fritz 4 finds the move
even faster (but maybe for the wrong reason) ...

>Do you use SE or threatextensionst in Darkthought, Ernst?

No, neither singular extensions (although experiments with them are
on my to-do list) nor threat-extensions. But we do use fine-tuned
modifications of Donninger's deep-search extensions.

Please wait for my upcoming Ph.D. thesis in order to read more about
our "secrets". :-)

=Ernst=



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