Author: Zach Wegner
Date: 16:30:22 06/05/03
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On June 05, 2003 at 19:21:29, Geoff wrote: >I hate recursive code, I always find it tricky to picture what is happening ! >Anyways, the fact that I call the search with doNull alternating TRUE, FALSE, >TRUE etc on each ply would make it Null move only for one side surely ? >If this is wrong I am sorry I still cannot see it ? I will have a think about it >a bit more to see if I change my mind. > >Anyone else got a casting vote on whether this is right or wrong ? > > Geoff Yes it would, but you also must think about all the times where the second null-move search doesn't cause a cutoff (which is most likely a lot of times). When that happens, a normal search would be done, and on the next ply another null move search would be done. Try out changing the parameter and see what happens, as that was the only thing I could see that could be causing poor performance.
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