Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:17:42 04/15/03
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On April 15, 2003 at 10:02:11, Grzegorz Sidorowicz wrote: >Is any program using MultiCut alpha-beta prunning? >(described by Yngvi Bjornsson and Tony Marsland) >This idea is very interesting but in my opinion >is not popular. >Maybe it is not working with null moves ?! >What do you think about this prunning technique? > >Grzegorz Yes it is a very interesting and original idea. I investigated it and see no real advantages for the game of chess. The problem for chess is that you can generate in a position where a multicut would give a cutoff, a cutoff by nullmove already as in these positoins it is likely that more than 1 move give a cutoff. So you create a supernullmove then. At other positions it is simply generating overhead without giving much cutoffs. The idea is interesting nevertheless for further investigation. Especially in 10x10 international checkers it might be really kicking butt. Yet for chess competing with nullmove is nearly impossible.
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