Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:06:29 09/28/01
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On September 28, 2001 at 06:48:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 27, 2001 at 18:13:57, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Would it be reasonable, then, for modern programs to avoid doing extensions on >>the first several ply? Or for the first 1% of the allotted time? Or something >>like this? > >As Christophe already explained, this isn't a matter of extensions (those >_are_ nearly always limited to prevent explosions like this) but of >a quiescent search going mad. This is a question of definition you can look at quiescent search as extensions. I understand that it is probably not the usual definition for programmers but I believe that it is the way that most non programmers understand the word extensions. I also believe that leonid understands the word extensions in this way and I know that when Genius says selective search 0 it means also not using qsearch. Uri
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