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Subject: Re: Questions about Mate Searching.

Author: William Bryant

Date: 08:26:00 09/24/00

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On September 23, 2000 at 18:35:20, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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

I was going to use my regular extensions: In Check, Passed Pawn, Recapture.

I also like the approach mentioned by Andrew.

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com




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