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Subject: Re: Get this!!! Little Goliath Gold 2 finds 18 f5 in 15 minutes!!

Author: Francis Monkman

Date: 16:29:47 05/05/99

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On May 05, 1999 at 18:55:03, Paul Richards wrote:

>Strange thing though, as is so often the case, once you supply
>the correct move, it sees the continuations immediately at a much
>shallower depth. So then why the hell doesn't it see it by 15 ply?
>It really does seem as though correspondence analysis would find
>these thing faster.  In other words, at 15 ply it doesn't see f5
>as best, yet as soon as you supply f5, it sees it winning within
>10 or 11 ply.  It doesn't get confused by any drawing chances
>either, it easily finds a clear win.

Exactly!! I've been noticing this 'phenomenon' for years, had new
examples in the last few days. Haven't we all? Is there a fault in the
search/pruning algorithm(s)?




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