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Subject: Re: Null move mate extension

Author: James Robertson

Date: 08:41:36 06/25/99

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On June 25, 1999 at 07:48:31, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On June 25, 1999 at 02:29:45, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>I implemented the threat exension in the null move (if the null move returns
>>that we were mated, then extend), and I almost _never_ get any extensions this
>>way. Maybe 3 or 4 times in an entire search, if that many. How many is normal?
>>Do I have a bug? Any help is appreciated.
>
>I get a lot of extensions this way, far more than I can afford to search. So I
>only use this very close to the horizon (depth <= 2).
>May be that you are doing something wrong ?

Yeah.... I think Bob put his finger on it. But, I strongly encourage you to
extend several plies on every threat..... It seems like my program gets withing
200 points of Comet, and then you release a new version. :(

James

>
>Uli
>>
>>Thanks,
>>James



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