Author: Ernst A. Heinz
Date: 11:52:48 01/25/00
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On January 25, 2000 at 14:37:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > [...] > >B* certainly didn't use SE. The B* driver not, of course. But the version we played employed the normal alpha-beta "Hitech" to perform the necessary probe searches of 2-3 plies. If the normal "Hitech" did singular extensions, then the probe searches of "Hitech B*" ought to have done them too. Actually, it was the pb-B* version of "Hitech B*" that we played. >Generally SE is dangerous in endgames as well, as too much gets extended, and >the overhead isn't worth the effort spent... Right. >so it is likely what you played had no SE of any kind... Yes, I strongly suppose so. >I do remember that he originally asked some of your group to develop a fast >engine for him to produce the bounds that B* needs, didn't he??? Yes, but somehow Markus and I (especially) were not the right kind of people to cooperate with him. We obviously had too much of an ego ourselves and Berliner was not able to cope with this fact. >That should put a >time-frame for dropping the original hitech with SE in favor of B*. Not really, because the original "Hitech" was already dropped somehow in favour of pb-B*. =Ernst=
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