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Subject: Re: Corrected

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 18:17:08 09/09/01

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On September 09, 2001 at 19:08:13, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 09, 2001 at 18:43:48, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>Remember that while we call them "singular extensions", they actually did them
>>in cases which were not strictly singular.  For instance, when there were only
>>three good moves, they extended all of them, though not to the same degree as
>>when there was only a single good move.
>
>Are you sure of this?
>
>I haven't heard of this before.
>
>What can happen is that it thinks a move is good, SE gets
>triggered and the SE shows the move is actually bad. It
>picks a new move who now also triggers SE, and also gets
>shown bad. This can go on for all moves.
>
>My implementation even has special code for this.
>
>--
>GCP

I am 100% sure of it for Deep Blue.  I am less sure for DT2 but believe they
were already doing it by that time.

What does your special code do when it sees the search behaviour you described?

Dave



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