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Subject: Re: Checks in the Qsearch

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:59:30 07/11/02

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On July 11, 2002 at 04:29:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 09, 2002 at 19:30:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>>I see no reason to wait for the future.
>>>If R=4 is good only for depth>15 then people can use it also today only when the
>>>remaining depth is bigger than 15.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Of course, if we _never_ reach that then it becomes pointless to have the
>>test in the program.  But not in a couple of years.
>
>People use programs for correspondence games so if programmers care about their
>customers they have good reasons to use R=4 when the depth is big enough even
>today.
>
>Uri


However, we "programmers" are really interested in OTB chess games.  And we
generally tune for the kind of game we are most interested in, whether it is
blitz or standard.  But not correspondence.



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