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Subject: Re: DeepBlue && SingularExtensions && !Nullmoving

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:40:23 10/16/02

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On October 16, 2002 at 06:35:32, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>i am tuning Rebel XP in the moment, and i have the option
>to use SEX, but i found out that it makes not much sense
>to use them in modern programs (like e.g. Rebel) since
>they do IMO not find out anything the program would not see
>WITHOUT SEX.
>
>but Singular EXtensions cost much resources and are often waste of time.

you should only use SE when rebel is not forward pruning other than nullmove.
the combination of forward pruning + SE plays positional very weak.





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