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Subject: Re: Nullmove question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:34:43 11/05/01

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On November 05, 2001 at 13:02:31, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>why not
>
>val = -AlphaBeta(depth - 1 - R, -beta, -alpha);
>
>
>Gerd


In PVS that would be find.  But the question is, what do you want to
know from the null-move search.  For a fail high, all you can discover
is "if I do nothing, the score comes back >= beta" which is enough to
convince me that I can simply return beta here, as playing _any_ move
should raise the score even higher (non-zug of course).  Does it matter
_how_ good the score is?  Or just that it is >= beta?




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