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Subject: Re: Questions about Mate Searching.

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 15:35:20 09/23/00

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On September 23, 2000 at 16:28:09, William Bryant wrote:

>I am adding a specific Mate search to my program and trying various
>combinations of search settings.  I was curious about the setting others are
>using.
>
>I was also going to use NULL moves

Be sure to try with and without. I don't think there is much (any) advantage
to nullmove when looking for mates. And you WILL miss the zugzwang mates.

>Any comments would be appreciated.

What extensions are you going to use ?

--
GCP



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