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Subject: Re: Whither Null Move?

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 03:21:11 08/19/01

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Your PV shows that something must be wrong, this is not normal. I see nothing
directly wrong with your code though :(.

Have you tried disabling all other search enhancements and comparing plain
alphabeta with ab + your null move implementation ?

>          nm.from = 0;
>          MakeMove(nm);
>          nullscore = -search(-beta, -beta+1, depth-3, 1); /* 1 -> innull */
>          UnMakeMove();

Have you checked your MakeMove(). Does it really only change color on move when
the from-square is zero (and maybe the ep-square to 0)?  How does your unmake
move work btw ? Where do you store the unmake info for every ply ?

Is your NullMove algo at the right part of your search(), after trying the hash
move ?

Georg



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