Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 00:11:32 12/22/00
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On December 21, 2000 at 21:45:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On December 21, 2000 at 21:29:02, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Has anyone tried this:
>>
>>Exhaustive search (NO Null move pruning) out to some arbitrary ply from the root
>>{e.g. ply 5} and then increasingly aggressive Null move pruning forward from
>>there [perhaps with a linear increase in aggressiveness out to some level]
>>?
>
>
>I do something similar. In endgames where there is less than a queen, but
>one side still has pieces, I don't do null move for the first N plies of
>the search.
>
I can't see that anywhere in your code. Help! :)
>I also do a graduated null-move search, where R=3 for positions near the root,
>and R=2 for positions near the leaf positions. I think doing the inverse is
>wrong, as you will hide too much by letting null-move collapse the last few
>plies into a simple quiescence search...
This I can see.
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