Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 09:04:02 01/14/02
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On January 14, 2002 at 11:30:02, Severi Salminen wrote: >>How important is the Null Move Threat Extension in practical play? I would >>imagine that it solves some tactical problems faster, i.e. it scores better on >>WAC, but does it win games (or draw games that would otherwise have been lost)? > >Sorry my ignorance, but what is NMTE? If nullmove search returns something way >below alpha, you trigger an extension? > >Severi Yep. Well, most people do it only for mate threats (say, value < -MATE + 100), but I have experimented with doing it for (value < alpha - whatever). It didn't seem to do anything but make the tree larger. /David
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