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Subject: Re: Kasparov is afraid

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:02:22 01/13/00

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On January 12, 2000 at 23:49:43, blass uri wrote:

>On January 12, 2000 at 18:59:49, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
><snipped>
>>Deep blue searched only 11 ply here, so we must assume it didn't
>>see the manoeuvre in which the white passed pawns nearly queen (and
>>searching deeper you do see them queen, causing black to prevent that
>>and give up another pawn).
>
>We do not must assume nothing because we do not know exacrly the extensions of
>deeper blue

Yes we do know the extensions exactly. Forced moves are first 8 ply of
search seen deeper, but not the last 4 ply of search.
Further we can assume the usual extensions (recaptures, check), and
before the qsearch sometimes 1 ply extra if a pattern is there.



>Uri



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