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Subject: Re: Some questions about Verified Null-Move Pruning

Author: Richard Pijl

Date: 08:18:27 11/21/02

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On November 21, 2002 at 11:07:39, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On November 21, 2002 at 11:04:55, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 21, 2002 at 08:34:36, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>1)I do not find in the pseudo code in figure 3 undo null move.
>>>
>>>I assume that it should be before if value>=beta and after value=-search(...)
>>>Am I right?
>>
>>Remember that a null move is not a move.  So it is possible that there is
>>nothing to undo.  I update the hash signature to avoid a different problem,
>>so I have to undo that as you suggest...
>
>Well, since side-to-move is part of the hash signature, I hope that everyone is
>updating something at that point. Or did I miss something?
>
Not if you have separate hashtables for wtm and btm.
But there are other things ... dealing with ep flags, fifty moves rule etc.
Richard.



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