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Subject: Re: Buggy check extensions, MAXPLY

Author: Albert Bertilsson

Date: 13:26:30 03/22/03

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On March 21, 2003 at 09:33:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 21, 2003 at 09:09:05, Albert Bertilsson wrote:
>
>>aybe 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
>
>It seems that I did not understand your post
>You wrote:
>
>"Both sides have a piece that they need to protect or defend, if they don't the
>loose almost immediatly. So the line is a series of moves from both sides trying
>to vary their game to push the inevitable draw forward."
>
>I understood from it that you extend in case that the side to move has a piece
>under threat.
>
>If you do not extend then I do not see why the fact that both side has
>a piece that they need to protect is relevant.
>
I just described the type of position that caused the trouble I don't know why
these positions search very deep, I just noticed that they do.

I'm happy if it doesn't makes any sense to you because that probably means that
it isn't something that I should feel bad about not understanding.

/Regards Albert



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