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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:27:30 10/10/02

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On October 10, 2002 at 04:15:04, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 09, 2002 at 11:11:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>No he didn't.  Only an idiot would include code that helps on test suites but
>>hurts
>>in _real_ games...
>
>I don't believe it hurts real games. It just doesn't help either.
>
>--
>GCP


Re-read vincent's comments.

"Singular extensions results in shit positional play"

Good justfication to not take his comments very seriously, as who would use
something that would
make you play positionally badly?  Not me...

BTW it does help some programs.  Ferret has been using them quite successfully
for several years.
WchessX did also (not to mention deep thought/blue and hitech plus Cray Blitz).



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