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Subject: Re: negative extensions

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:43:01 01/25/01

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On January 25, 2001 at 14:00:38, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On January 25, 2001 at 13:15:59, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>The goal of null-move is to lower the (current) depth with X-plies, in
>>CC terms called R=X. Most common is R=2. "R" stands for reduce.
>>
>>Of course you don't have to do a null-move to practise a R=2. In Rebel
>>I do R=1, R=2 and complete razoring (R=INFINITE) based on eval and some
>>special code not to prune / reduce important parts of the tree.
>
>Do you use R=INFINITE for particularly bad-looking moves everywhere in the
>tree, or just near the leaves?  It seems very dangerous to do this near the
>root of the tree ...
>
>Tord

Ed said in the past that Rebel prunes also in the root.

Uri



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