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Subject: Re: Explosion in WAC 102

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 18:18:33 01/11/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 17:10:12, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>On January 11, 2002 at 17:03:49, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>On January 11, 2002 at 16:59:04, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Such should not be necessary, except bug somewhere.
>>>I find this "Mate in 4" at ply 5 (+5 extensions = 10 ply).
>>>My exts are:
>>>check: +1 ply
>>>2 successive checks: +0.6
>>>promo: +1
>>>good recap: +0.5
>>>mate threat: +1
>>>single move: +0.75
>>>and some more less important ones.
>>
>>And you limit your extension at each ply to at most one?
>
>Yep!
>
>And you apply single
>>move extension _after_ limiting, like me?
>
>No. Why do that?
>

Because if you don't, your one reply extension has no effect at all. Every time
you are in check you add 1 ply. Then if there is only one move, you add 0.75
ply. Then you limit your extensions to at most 1 ply, which in this case is 1
ply. So your one reply extension is doing nothing.

/David



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