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Subject: Re: 40.. Bc7 [was Re: Deep Blue--Part III]

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:17:20 05/11/98

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On May 11, 1998 at 09:07:42, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>On May 11, 1998 at 08:53:35, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>
>>On May 11, 1998 at 05:07:16, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>>
>>>On May 11, 1998 at 02:50:40, Howard Exner wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>I applaud the move B-c7 which I doubt any other computer program
>>>>would ever consider.
>>>
>>>"DarkThought" locks onto Bc7 in iteration #12 after roughly a minute
>>>on a 600MHz Alpha-21164a and feels slightly positive (+0.3).
>>
>>Cool, so it can be calculated.
>
>Looks like -- another poster pointed out that Fritz 4 finds the move
>even faster (but maybe for the wrong reason) ...
>
>>Do you use SE or threatextensionst in Darkthought, Ernst?
>
>No, neither singular extensions (although experiments with them are
>on my to-do list) nor threat-extensions. But we do use fine-tuned
>modifications of Donninger's deep-search extensions.
>
>Please wait for my upcoming Ph.D. thesis in order to read more about
>our "secrets". :-)

Never heard of 'deep search' extensions.
Where can i read about what donninger published about it?

>=Ernst=



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