Author: Uri Blass
Date: 19:15:39 11/21/02
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On November 21, 2002 at 22:05:15, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On November 21, 2002 at 11:14:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>Just go for a 2 minute single cpu implementation.
>
>But of course you will find that R=2 always will outperform
>already his verification search with 1 ply reduction.
>
>You can implement it quicker his algorithm by doing next
>after nullmove:
>
>int Search(alfa,beta,depthleft,allowingnull) {
> ..
>
> if( !allowingnull && nullmoveok ) {
> .. try nullmove
> if( score >= beta ) { // score returned by nullmove
> score = Search(alfa,beta,depthleft-1,true);
> // last parameter to prevent another reduction next position
> if( score >= beta ) {
> StoreInHashtableAndKillerTable(..);
> return score;
> }
> }
> }
> ..
>
>This is a more elegant way to implement it, and it was already done
>years ago and published in ICCA journal.
No
It is not his algorithm.
The verify parameter in his article is not allowingnull.
It is a parameter that tells the computer if to allow searching to depth-1 in
the subtree.
Uri
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