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Subject: Re: Pondering ("think on opponent's time")

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 02:48:48 11/13/02

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On November 13, 2002 at 05:40:42, Uri Blass wrote:
>I can learn from a lot of 2-4 ply search about the logical moves.
>In an extreme case there is only one logical move except the move that I ponder
>so I can continue to search it and give it almost 10% of the time.

I guess, but "extreme case" may be the key words here.

See, it is sort of catch 22, you won't have a sequence of scores until you spend
time searching it, and you should only spend this time in the extreme cases, or
else you end up with Russell's bb-gun in the majority of cases.

-S.

>Suppose that I see the following
>
>after expected move:
>score -0.2 at depth 1-10
>
>after second best move
>score 0.1 at depth 1,2
>score 0 at depth 3,4
>score -0.1 at depth 5,6
>score -0.19 at depth 7.
>
>It is still not the best move but I can suspect that it is going to be the best
>move because of the behaviour of the sequence of the scores
>
>Uri



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