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Subject: Re: Adaptive Null Move Pruning

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 12:08:45 09/26/00

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Hi Vincent,

>So a combination of 3 and 2 ply on a depthleft basis , as opposed to my
>current rude way of always using R=3, and also when compared to the
>original idea from me some years or 5 ago to
>do the first nullmove with R=3 and the second with R=2,
>is a quite clever way to apply nullmove in the search, as using depthleft
>to decide on which Reduction factor you use means that it's not hurting
>your hashtables with wrong scores also. If you mix R=2 and R=3 using the
>number of nullmoves done as a basis, then this means that you might get
>cutoffs in positions where score is based upon R=3, which get returned
>in a position where you apply R=3 for the first time, practically doing R=3
>as worst case.
>
>I think i directly start experimenting with adaptive nullmove again :)

My sincere congratulations, you finally understood what
adaptive null-move pruning is all about!

=Ernst=



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