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Subject: Re: Starting position to 30 ply

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:45:46 06/05/01

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On June 05, 2001 at 07:30:01, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 05, 2001 at 05:40:22, Daniel Clausen wrote:
><snipped>
>>I don't know about your engine but a 15-ply search w/o alpha-beta from the
>>initial position is.. welp.. out of the question. :) Maybe null-move helps with
>>this a lot?
>
>It is clear that recursive null move helps a lot.
>
>Uri


That isn't the main improvement in MTD however.  Programs spend _way_ too
much time establishing an upper or lower search bound throughout the
tree.  MTD(f) does not.



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