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Subject: Re: Example for the potential of the new Botvinik-Makaroff-Threat-Extensions

Author: Sergei S. Markoff

Date: 07:44:07 10/02/03

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Hello!

>The only way to solve it in 8 plies is if you have some repeat threat mate
>extension of 1 ply and not 1/2 ply and even in that case I do not see a reason
>to extend most of the moves of black so I do not understand the 8 plies.

Don't forget that SmarThink is a very agressive extending/pruning engine.
Sometimes it can decide to extend some node by more than 2 plies. Extending a
node for 1.2 or 1.3 plies is frequent thing in SmarThink.

Best wishes,
Sergei





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