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Subject: Re: Diep as a strong sparring opponent (longish)?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:51:13 10/14/03

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On October 14, 2003 at 10:58:30, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On October 14, 2003 at 10:47:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>One example.  How do you tune/limit extensions?  It is possible to tune them
>>so that they are most efficient at one specific depth.  Go deeper and they
>>tend to over-extend, go shallower and they tend to under-extend.  Yes, you
>>should be able to tune it so it does the correct thing for all cases, but
>>I don't necessarily believe that I have done that.  I am sure I _could_ do
>>that, given the time, however.
>
>Couldn't you just extend differently depending on the iteration number?
>Or would that cause too much search instability?
>
>Tord


you can do that.  But it takes testing and tuning, which was the point.  IE
if you mainly use the same hardware for a year or two, as I do, and you mainly
look at long time control games, as I do, you tend to lock things in to that
search speed and depth.  Then you have to adjust again when something changes.



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