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Subject: Re: Verified Null-Move Pruning, ICGA 25(3)

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 19:38:51 11/21/02

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On November 21, 2002 at 22:31:55, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 21, 2002 at 22:17:01, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On November 21, 2002 at 22:15:39, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>it is here too Uri.
>
>No
>
>Search(alfa,beta,depthleft-1,true) is not normal null move pruning.
>By definition you do not allow null move.
>
>His idea is to use normal null move pruning in the tree after score>=beta.
>
>Uri

From the pseudo code i conclude that it is the same like zugzwang detection
with 1 difference. Most likely he has a few bugs in the genesis program
which were most likely not there for the zugzwang detection code.

the hashtable is a tricky thing there.

It is of course impossible that normal R=2 is getting outperformed
by 'verification search' with just 1 depth reduction.

*impossible*.

Unless you only compare search depths... ...and not search times...



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