Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 06:51:50 01/25/01
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On January 25, 2001 at 09:34:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 25, 2001 at 08:20:26, David Rasmussen wrote: > >>Howdy. >> >>Inspired by the thread on extensions, I was wondering whether the idea of >>negative extensions or reductions could be a good one. >> >>I mean, maybe many of the "unsound" pruning methods would be sounder if, instead >>of just pruning, they just adjusted the resulting depth down. In that way, a >>line would still be examined, only later. > > >This is what null-move search does, in essence... Exactly, but null-move does it because it assumes that a null-move can't be very good. I am talking about doing it in other cases as well, where we might think that the move is not very good as well. Extensions extend exciting lines. I want to reduce boring lines too.
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