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Subject: Re: Correspondence Match (To Uri and Dr. Hyatt)

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 10:25:04 05/04/00

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On May 04, 2000 at 12:40:27, Dan Andersson wrote:

>No you are mistaken. You are not looking at a shallow ply depth at all. It is
>only that by knowing the value of the best move you can discard really bad
>variations fast, i.e. you only need to prove that the next move cannot be better
>for you, not its exact value. That was the main point of the 'hole' analogy.

Dan,

But what is it you are looking at to determine the value of the move if it is
not an evaluation at various ply depths?  It seems to be a static evaluation of
the board similar to an arbiters decision just looking at the board.

Also, given moves A, B, C with B the actual best move, if I start with A and
spend some time with it, at the end of that time, A is the best move because so
far it is the only one I've looked at.  Now I go to B, and using whatever it is
that is being used to eval these moves, I see right away that B is better.  Do I
now spend some additional time looking at B or do I just move right on to move
C?

Steve



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