Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 07:06:16 03/31/02
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On March 31, 2002 at 08:55:54, Klaus Friedel wrote: >>You have a knight on e5 that is attacked by a pawn. If you nullmove now, >>you are assuming that any move would be better than not moving. In reality, >>the best you can do is retreat the knight to f3 where it will get a smaller >>bonus from the piece-square tables. The NMO will fail, because not moving >>would have given you a higher score than moving. > >I can't follow your example... If the knight doesn't move qsearch will get a >score far below the score you get by moving to f3. So not moving won't give a >higher score than moving. > >Klaus Substitute 'if you nullmove now' by 'if you standpat now in that case. The general idea is that the NMO fails more often than only in zugzwang situations. -- GCP
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