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Subject: Re: negative extensions

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 07:47:11 01/25/01

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On January 25, 2001 at 10:30:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On January 25, 2001 at 09:34:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>This is what null-move search does, in essence...
>
>Mnmnm...yes...but...
>
>Nullmove does more than just reducing depth, it also
>does the nullmove! This makes it a lot unsafer than
>just reducing the depth.

Which is the essence of null-move, lower the depth.

Ed


>If you had said Fail High Reductions I would have
>agreed, but I don't think you can really call
>nullmove a negative extension.
>
>--
>GCP



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