Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:47:24 01/17/00
I have a theory that NULL move hurts at very, very long calculation times. The reason I suspect that it is true is that if one position in ten thousand is a zugzwang type and you consider a billion positions, a lot of them will be NULL moves. Most of them will be the kind that really should be avoided (maybe 99% or even 99.9%) but the 0.1-1% that really should be responded to get ignored. When only a few million nodes are searched, I doubt if there is a problem except in rare circumstances. Opinions? Am I all wet?
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