Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 13:19:29 11/20/02
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On November 20, 2002 at 16:04:50, Martin Giepmans wrote: >On November 20, 2002 at 11:43:10, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >> >> ICGA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 153-161, September 2003 >> >> >> Verified Null-Move Pruning >> >> Omid David Tabibi and Nathan S. Netanyahu >> >> >> Abstract >> >>In this article we review standard null-move pruning and introduce our extended >>version of it, which we call verified null-move pruning. In verified null-move >>pruning, whenever the shallow null-move search indicates a fail-high, instead of >>cutting off the search from the current node, the search is continued with >>reduced depth. >> >>Our experiments with verified null-move pruning show that on average, it >>constructs a smaller search tree with greater tactical strength in comparison to >>standard null-move pruning. Moreover, unlike standard null-move pruning, which >>fails badly in zugzwang positions, verified null-move pruning manages to detect >>most zugzwangs and in such cases conducts a re-search to obtain the correct >>result. In addition, verified null-move pruning is very easy to implement, and >>any standard null-move pruning program can use verified null-move pruning by >>modifying only a few lines of code. >> >> >>pdf: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~davoudo/pubs/vrfd_null.pdf >>zipped pdf: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~davoudo/pubs/vrfd_null.pdf.zip >>gzipped postscript: http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~davoudo/pubs/vrfd_null.ps.gz > > >If I'm not mistaken this is the well known "verification search" with >one modification: no verification in the verification search. >Am I right? > The classical verification search as introduced by Plenkner comes to detect zugzwangs. Verifeid null-move pruning as presented in the paper, constructs a smaller search tree with greater tactical strength in middle games (in addition to detecting zugzwangs). >Another question: >your results in table 5 seem convincing, but what about table 4? >Are these results statistically significant? (my guess is no ..) > For a good estimate of the growth of the search tree as we go deeper, see Table 3 and Figure 4 (which present ECM test positions searched to a depth of 11 plies). The WCS test positions were mainly used for testing the tactical strength (results in Table 5). Table 4 was provided just for the sake of completeness. >Martin
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