Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:20:46 01/25/01
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On January 25, 2001 at 10:47:11, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 Doesn't the classic null-move approach just cut a branch rather than lowering the depth? Of course, cutting a branch is a particular case of reducing the depth (the extreme case). I am asking because I think that I am doing something different... Regards, Miguel > > >>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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