Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 19:21:40 01/11/02
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On January 11, 2002 at 21:18:33, David Rasmussen wrote: >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 single reply extension is triggered on next ply by most, so it will be next ply extension. Or to rephrase: check is detected one ply below you detect it :) -Andrew-
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