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Subject: Re: What is the public's opinion about the result of a match between DB and

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:16:03 04/29/01

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On April 29, 2001 at 11:20:11, Uri Blass wrote:

>
>I believe that less than 18 plies are enough to see material equality or
>repetition in the relevant position if you use the right extension(it is not
>enough to see forced repetition if white decides not to win material and
>probably even 30 plies are not enough for it).
>
>I believe that part of the top programs use the right extension for this
>purpose(I remember that Deep Fritz's main line leaded to equality in material
>after Deep search).
>
>Uri


I assume by "right extensions" you mean do what a human would do, like a human
would do it.  This is _never_ going to happen.  The kinds of extensions done
by today's programs are so outrageous when compared to a human... and they blow
up badly at the depth needed to see the repetition and follow it to ply=60.



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