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Subject: Re: Recapture Extension

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:17:36 01/09/02

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On January 09, 2002 at 12:58:18, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>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


yep...

:)



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