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Subject: Re: A theoretical question

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 07:47:40 05/31/00

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On May 31, 2000 at 09:32:44, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On May 31, 2000 at 09:00:46, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>Lets assume you know beforehand what move your program will choose, in every
>>position. This does not have to be the best move.
>>
>>You now extend on that move. Will that make your program stronger ?
>>
>>If yes, lets assume your program likes to move with its knights a lot. Will you
>>make it stronger by extending on knight moves ?
>
>I think that the opposite is true. Your program will extend uninteresting moves
>on cost of the remaining moves. The reached search depth will suffer
>correspondingly (assuming that you have some time limit for the search).
>
>I'm not sure if i got you right ?
>

Why "uninteresting" ? If thats the move its going to choose anyway, it sure
wasn't uninteresting ! If half of its moves were knight-moves, then that does
mean that it considers knight-moves "interesting".

>Regards, Uli



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