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Subject: Re: new thoughts on verified null move

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 05:48:36 11/23/02

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On November 23, 2002 at 08:45:00, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 23, 2002 at 08:11:37, scott farrell wrote:
>
>>Just after other people's thoughts.
>>
>>I think Omid's work overlooked the adapative null move searching many of us do,
>>ie. transitioning from r=3 to r=2.
>>
>>I think adaptive null move tries to GUESS where to use r=2 to reduce the errors
>>that R=3 makes. I guess it depends on how often this GUESS is correct, the cost
>>of the verification search, and how long it takes the adaptive searching to
>>catch the error at the next ply.
>>
>>Has anyone looked at setting the verification search to reduced depth of 2
>>(rather than 1)? obviously to reduce the cost of the verification search.
>
>Omid checked it but you also reduce the gain.
>
>I think that I will look for good rules when to do the verification search so
>the cost will be significantly smaller but the gain is going to be the same in
>at least 99% of the cases.
>

I'm currently working on other variations. The initial results are promising.

>Uri



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