Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 09:58:47 03/01/01
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>I can save bunches of nodes by not nullmoving on the last ply before >qsearch. So if depthleft == 1 ply then not nullmoving reduces >for me the number of nodes considerably. Interesting idea, I'll give it a try in my engine. >But diep is hell slower! > >Are you sure that this futile prevention is working at big depths? >It never worked for me at big depths! Well, I never reach big depths with my slow Celeron300. I also have not tested it in large scale but it seemed to reduce nodes a little (maybe 0-5%). Maybe I'll test it some more and report the results - it still seems to be a good way to disable null moves. Severi
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