Author: Albert Bertilsson
Date: 06:09:05 03/21/03
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>The only situation when a side need to defend a piece is if the opponent threats >that piece. > >I do not understand the logic of having threat extensions when you do not have >even check extensions. > >Check is a private case of threat(threat on the king) and deciding to extend >only threats against other pieces does not make sense. > >extending every threat by a full ply does not make sense and it may cause the >tree to explode > >Uri Maybe I misunderstood your previous post, but what I intended to clarify was the kind of situations that caused Sharper to search too deep. This happens without the use of extensions of any kind. There just seems to be a few positions that are searched very deep, and that's the reason for having the MAXPLY limitation. /Regards Albert Bertilsson
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