Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:35:58 04/07/04
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On April 07, 2004 at 07:14:36, Tord Romstad wrote: >On April 07, 2004 at 05:11:44, José Carlos wrote: > >> You share your ideas, and that's great. Keep doing so please. > >I will, whenever I think I have something interesting to share. > >I'll now make an attempt to give a simple explanation of the more general >idea I mentioned: > >Like most programmers, I don't do a null move search at all nodes, but only >at nodes where I am reasonably sure of a fail high. I doubt if it is like most programmers. Movei does today null move at all nodes except pawn endgames. In endgames I also do verified null move pruning. I regard the null move >search as a technique to prune moves which does not even threaten to bring >the score up to alpha. > >At the node directly following the null move, the side to move should try >to prove that the move played before the null move contained some important >threat. Therefore, it makes sense to search some moves more deeply than >others after the null move. Moves which were made possible by the previous >move should be searched deeply, and also moves which attack squares and >pieces which were also attacked by the previous move. Other moves, which >have no logical connection to the move played before the null move, could >be searched with reduced depth. > >It would clearly take a lot of thought and experimentation to make something >like this work well, but I think the idea might have some potential. > >> Even if you make >>a mistake, you: >> -get feedback and avoid useless developing+testing >> -give something interesting to think about > >Yes, but in this case my mistake was so obvious that I was just wasting >everybody's time and bandwidth. I do not think so. Your mistake may help people to think about better ideas. > >> Congratulations on your success with Gothmog. Really impressive how your >>"stupid" ideas are working on your program. I wish I was so "stupid" as you. > >Thanks, but it seems to me that Averno is around the same strength. :-) > >Tord Not to me based on wbec averno is only in the 3th division when gothmog is in the second division and has 2.5-1.5 against knightdreamer and 2-2 against the baron when these programs are expected to fight for promotion places. Uri
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