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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:15:50 11/27/02

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On November 27, 2002 at 13:48:50, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On November 26, 2002 at 20:02:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 26, 2002 at 16:21:00, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>
>>>On November 26, 2002 at 15:58:06, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 26, 2002 at 15:55:56, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>So it is reasonable that on every program starting from a certain depth >adaptive null-move pruning will always construct a smaller search tree.
>>>>
>>>>Don't you mean the other way around?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Yes :-)
>>>
>>>Starting from a certain depth, verified null-move pruning will always construct
>>>a smaller search tree than the adaptive one.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>
>>
>> I am doing some testing now.  First thing I noticed is that for WAC, the
>>time-squared
>>measurement went down very significantly for your algorithm.  And I have not
>>modified
>>anything such as turning null-move off when low material happens, since your
>>idea will
>>catch the zug problems.
>
>Have you tried Fine70?
>
>Frank

Yes...  and I told Omid that this is a strange case as if I allow null-move in
pawn-only
endings, which turns it on for fine 70 of course, things get wrecked inside the
search
somehow.  A 45 ply search fails to see that Kb1 wins where normally an 18-19 ply
search is enough...


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