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Subject: Re: Surprising results from Chess experiment

Author: Pat King

Date: 15:42:30 07/12/99

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On July 12, 1999 at 03:52:19, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>Check extensions are well known to increase nodes-examined, as well as playing
>strength.  This has been reported over and over again in the literature, and
>they are used by every program and programmer I've run into.
>
>So, you are probably doing it incorrectly.
>
>Will

I don't doubt that they work (the Elo result was based on very minimal data),
and am glad that experience backs up my intuition re: nodes-examined. Further,
I've stepped through the code enough zillions of times to be sure of my
implementation. So, more data and/or improved analysis :)



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