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Subject: Re: Selectivity for long time controls.

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 12:27:36 07/30/99

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On July 30, 1999 at 14:05:01, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>	A few weeks ago somebody asked which selectivity levels were better for CM6000
>to analyze at very long time controls, suited for correspondence play.
>	The advice given was to use zero selectivity. I do not remember why I did not
>answer at that time, but my advice is exactly the opposite: the longer the time
>control the higher the selectiviyy level should be set, and not only for CM6000
>but for any program that allows you to change it.
>	The reason is that, due to the exponential nature of the search tree, the extra
>time is almost worthless when using no selectivity or very low selectivity.
>Jos

This seems good advice, and falls in line with Hiarcs 7  and the setting of
selectivity to the highest for Corres analysis.  Unless you know different!



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