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Subject: Re: Whither Null Move?

Author: Georg v. Zimmermann

Date: 08:48:23 08/21/01

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On August 20, 2001 at 12:02:11, Antonio Dieguez wrote:

>On August 20, 2001 at 01:03:30, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>...
>>nullscore = -search(-beta, -beta+1, depth-3, 1);
>>
>>=> he is using R=2
>>
>>Georg
>
>oops am I missing something?
>The search here recieved a "depth", and here the nullmove call the search with
>depth-3 so three plies less will be played right? I 'm not understanding what
>that depth variable means or what a r=3 or r=2 means for you all?
>
>thx.

R is the Null Move Depth Reduction. For the normal search you reduce the
remaining depth by one ply the deeper you go into the tree.
So for the Nullmove

nullscore = -search(-beta, -beta+1, depth -R -1, 1);

Therefore his extra reduction is 2.

Georg





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