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Subject: Re: Extensions (concept) question.

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 22:25:24 09/28/01

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On September 28, 2001 at 14:37:32, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:

>Suppose I'm doing a 12 ply search and at ply 2 I have a promotion or a pawn at
>the 7th rank.
>Should I extend? Or should I extend these cases only at frontier nodes /
>qsearch?
>My reason is that if we are a ply 2 we don't need to extend because we have 10
>ply remaining to search.
>But if we are at fontier nodes or at quiescence search then we need to search
>deeper these and other cases.
>So, could we only do extensions at frontier nodes and at qsearch?
>Perhaps my idea/concept of extensions is incorrect.
>Could someone comment on this?

As others have said already, you should. There are situation where you don't. If
material is already very bad. ie I am more than a queen behind and you push a
pawn to the 7th. No need to extend here ( well, depends on the window of course)

Tony

>
>Best regards,
>Alvaro Cardoso



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