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Subject: Re: Searching 18-20 ply just using nullmove

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 23:58:06 08/19/00

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On August 20, 2000 at 02:37:18, Uri Blass wrote:

>On August 20, 2000 at 02:04:12, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On August 19, 2000 at 01:46:04, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On August 18, 2000 at 23:18:24, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>><snipped>
>>>>It's true I'm lousy at chess, but just because I can't "compute" fast enough.
>>>
>>>I do not think that this is the reason.
>>>
>>>I think that the problem is that you did not learn to compute the right lines.
>>>Better human players know better to search the right lines and this is the
>>>reason that with the same number of nodes per move they do not give away their
>>>pieces.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Do you mean that part of being good at chess is to avoid complicated positions?
>>(which could be called "wrong lines"?)
>>S.Taylor
>
>No
>
>I think that part of being a good player is to know to search the right lines.
>Weak players often do not see 1 ply move in their search because they do not
>search the right lines.
>
>I believe that doing a 1 ply search is possible in tournament time control and I
>believe that it is important for weak players to try to do it in order not to
>miss important lines.
>
>Not missing a good move of yourself or a good move of your opponent in the first
>ply after your move is important.
>
>Doing one ply search can also give good ideas for the next plies and I believe
>that weak players can get at least 200 elo improvement if they remember to do
>one ply search of their moves and also one ply search of the opponents move
>before they play their planned move.
>
>You have an average of 3 minutes per move at tournament time control and you can
>devote the rest of yout time for thinking in the regular way.
>
>Uri

With forward pruning!(a little bit)
S.Taylor



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