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Subject: Re: Corrected

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 18:20:52 09/09/01

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On September 09, 2001 at 19:02:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>I thought that it is correct only about Deep blue.
>Do you say that it was also Deep thought?

I thought they did singular and dual extensions at least in the deep thought
era, but I do not remember this with 100% confidence.

>I also doubt if all these extensions were productive and it is possible that
>they believed that it should be productive at long time control and were simply
>wrong.
>
>I suspect that they had no time to test if these extensions really help relative
>to not doing it because they were too busy in implementing the new extensions in
>hardware.

I think they found the extensions to be productive.  Otherwise, they wouldn't
have used them for a decade.

>Uri



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