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Subject: Re: Feng-Hsiung Hsu's talk at Microsoft

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 22:52:16 10/07/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 00:52:38, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>He also says that their Q-search is much more powerful than the one that is
>usually used in the software-only programs.

How can he tell? Nobody knows what the commercials are doing.

>Hsu gave some details why they don't use null-move:
>(1) He thinks that singular extensions and null-move gave more-or-less the same
>rating difference (100-200 points IIRC).

Bull. Their own reported findings directly contradict this!

>(2) It's very hard to implement both null move and singular extensions in the
>same program.

Bull.

I'm sorry, I don't believe a word of it.

--
GCP



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