Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 00:32:34 07/09/02
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On July 08, 2002 at 16:24:32, Steve Maughan wrote:
>Christophe,
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>>It doesn't matter to what depth you are searching.
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>>Increasing R can in the best case only give a minor speedup.
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>>The speedup you can get by increasing R is bounded to a few percent.
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>>Just evaluate the time you are spending in null move searches currently.
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>Is this really true. I would say that to measure this you'd need to see what
>percentage of leaf nodes have one or more null moves in their path. I'd be
>surprised if it were only a few percent.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve
It's the whole point of null move.
Christophe
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