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Subject: Re: Recapture Extension

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:18:24 01/09/02

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On January 09, 2002 at 17:12:23, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>On January 09, 2002 at 15:17:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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...
>>
>>:)
>
>Same goes for me. I don't know what the outcome of this experiment was, but for
>me leaving it in seems to "break even". It solves a few tactics extra and misses
>a few others. I have always had doubts if it really effectively reduces horizon
>effects in games.
>
>Bas.

In that case i assume you threw it out, in order to get another ply more?





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