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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