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Subject: Re: "Recursive" Nullmove

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:35:08 04/27/01

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On April 27, 2001 at 13:07:49, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>I see that in other threads people are talking about "recursive" nullmove
>as a breakthrough. I think I understood what nullmove is and I implemented it
>in my program. But... what makes it "recursive"? What is that exactly?
>What's the difference with a non-recursive implementation?
>Is non recursive an implemenation that does not allow two nullmoves in the same
>search path? If it is so, why there is such a big improvement over the
>"non-recursive"?
>
>Thanks,
>Miguel


The _original_ use was a single null-move in any path.  That was called
"non-recursive".  "recursive" allows any number in a single path, only it
disallows two consecutive null-moves...



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