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Subject: Re: Extensions

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:12:07 01/20/02

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On January 20, 2002 at 08:06:18, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>On January 19, 2002 at 19:32:43, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On January 19, 2002 at 18:56:34, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>>
>>>>I think the gain would be pretty significant, on the order of at
>>>>least 200 elo points in comp/comp games.
>>>>
>>>>(no extensions vs. well-tuned extensions)
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>Hsu once said about 70 ELO max.
>>
>>Would be a nice test then to see who's right.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>Don't forget turning it all off buys you a lot of depth and that surely matters.
>I once tried it for fun in a blitz match against crafty and suddenly Tao started
>to push Crafty in a corner again and again. But at some point Crafty saved
>itsself via a series of checks. Result overall worsened somehwat without
>extensions, but less than you would expect. And that was Blitz, at extremely
>long time controls it might be even closer.
>
>Bas.

No

I suspect that at longer time control
extensions are going to be more important.

at long time control you can get more plies from extensions.

I believe that extensions can be worth more than 200 elo in rating.

Uri



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