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Subject: Re: What are null moves?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 23:15:21 09/20/98

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On September 21, 1998 at 02:12:06, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On September 20, 1998 at 18:52:03, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On September 20, 1998 at 17:57:30, John Coffey wrote:
>>
>>>More importantly:  Null-move is a new concept to me.  What is the idea
>>>behind it?
>>
>>It is a domain-independent forward-pruning technique.
>
>That's what I said during my B.Sc. project defense, but Tony Marsland called me
>on it. :-)  He pointed out that it isn't domain-independent because even within
>the context of two-player zero-sum games, it's possible that the rules of the
>game could allow a "pass".  Scrabble would be an example of this (change zero
>tiles).
>
>Dave Gomboc

It occurs to me now that perhaps that is not the best example.  I am too tired
to think of a good one.  I'll bet you can do better. :)

Dave Gomboc



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