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Subject: Re: Trade off in strength for blitz vs Standard concerning Ferret??

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 17:13:56 08/09/98

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On August 09, 1998 at 19:18:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 09, 1998 at 10:22:31, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>Thorsten talked about this, but maybe it applied to older versions of Lang's
>>programs. Nobody has given evidence that Genius selects differently its moves
>>than the opponent's, except in the very end of the lines.
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>actually, several posted a few positions where Genius appeared to show an
>asymmetric search.  It couldn't find the key move with a very deep search,
>yet if you play the key move and let it play the other side, it would find that
>it was lost very quickly.  Which lends credibility to the idea that it looks
>at everything for the opponent, but prunes (forward prunes) its own moves
>quite a bit in the right circumstances...


I remember Thorsten said he would post some of these positions, but he didn't do
it, or I just missed his posts.

I would be interested to see such positions. If somebody has found such
examples, would he be kind enough to repost them, please?

Thanks in advance.


    Christophe



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