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Subject: Re: Correction to Ed's page about null move

Author: Igor V. Korshunov

Date: 12:54:48 01/06/03

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On January 06, 2003 at 03:48:22, Uri Blass wrote:

>Ed writes in his page in selective search techniques:
>
>"Nowadays I can't mention a chess program that doesn't use Null-Move, the chess
>programmer community owes Frans Morsch a big thanks."
>
>Junior does not use null move so it is possible to mention chess programs that
>do not use null move.
>
>Uri

About two years ago I red that Junior can make mistake in endgame positions due
to very heavy null move pruning.
And author decline to fix this bug because this fix can lead to decrasing
middlegame playing strenght. I hope this is mean Junior use null move.

Best wishes,
Igor

P.S. Please, give me URL to Ed's page.



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