Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 09:58:18 01/09/02
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On January 09, 2002 at 12:45:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 09, 2002 at 10:15:53, David Rasmussen wrote: > >>Some time ago we talked about the recapture extension. Bob's experiments with >>Crafty seemed to show that recapture extension was a bad idea at least for his >>program. >> >>How many people have the recapture extension because they positively believe >>that it is better for their program, and how many has removed it from their >>program because the positively believe that it is bad for their program? >> >>I am sure a lot of people have it or don't have it, but for no specific reason, >>that is, they have not tested the effect of this extension thoroughly. >> >>/David > > >Note that I still use it. It definitely slows things down at times, but >allowing my opponent to burn two plies "at will" by making a capture that I >have to reply to seems dangerous to ignore... So, you prefer following your intuition, though it is not in complete accordance with the statistics of the experiment which you have done once (IIRC) ? Uli
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