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Subject: Re: DB just another program

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 15:00:41 01/27/00

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As your search depth increases, for each wrong evaluation which is overturned by
searching an additional ply, there are more ways the opponent might avoid that
particular line, even if the trap is not seen.  Intuition can work if used
correctly.

On January 27, 2000 at 17:08:49, Dann Corbit wrote:

>So as we read and examine a successive ply, we are gathering a large multiple of
>the previous information (along with all that it contains).
>
>Hence, by intuition, an additional ply should make us play many times better
>than before.  It does not, so intuition is foiled.



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