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Subject: Re: Adaptive Null Move Pruning

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:42:31 09/25/00

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On September 25, 2000 at 11:41:18, David Rasmussen wrote:

>Am I the only one who
>
>a) thinks that the kind of null move pruning that is done in Hyatt's Crafty is
>the reverse of what Ernst Heinz concludes in his paper about ANMP

You are wrong. The ANMP in Crafty is the same as the ANMP described
by Ernst.

>I.E. When I do
>	if (depth>6)
>		R=2;
>	else
>		R=3;
>I get the best results.
>Why?

I'll try your scheme out, but I'd be really surprised if it worked better.

--
GCP



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