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Subject: Re: Null move idea

Author: Vasik Rajlich

Date: 03:31:09 09/27/04

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On September 27, 2004 at 01:45:28, Sergei S. Markoff wrote:

>>Keep in mind that most wrong null-move fail highs are due to the depth
>> reduction rather than zugzwang.
>
>Do you have a statistics for it? It would be really interesting to explore
>null-move behaviour.

Agree :) I'd like to see stats for how often null move fails high while full
search would fail low, but don't have these.

When null move does wrongly fail high, it is in the middlegame 100% due to the
depth reduction, ie. never due to zugzwang, this doesn't need testing.

Vas



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