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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