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Subject: Re: DB doesn't do NULL move????

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 20:52:51 06/28/98

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On June 28, 1998 at 21:24:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>If you'd have had the opportunity to sit around the table with Hsu and
>company at any of the recent ACM events, you'd know his opinion of null-
>move searching.  However, I should add, two years ago he thought my
>pruning in the q-search in Cray Blitz and Crafty was wrong, but then in
>DB-II he added such an idea.  So you never know, although I can't see him
>doing null-move...  That is directly opposed to the extensions they try to
>do.

I don't remember having heard this in the past.

I think it is this sort of prejudice against a technique is often a source of
lost Elo points.

bruce



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