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Subject: Re: Diminishing returns

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:36:32 04/29/04

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On April 29, 2004 at 18:37:15, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On April 29, 2004 at 11:25:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>But the fact remains that D+1 is _always_ better than D.
>
>More correct would be: D+1 is always better than or equal to D. If it is mate in
>1, another ply of search isn't going to improve upon that.


Of course.  The trivial case.  But I was talking about playing games.  Mate
doesn't happen for a long time there. :)




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