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Subject: Re: Questions about verified null move

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 10:02:26 07/20/03

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On July 20, 2003 at 04:55:17, Ryan B. wrote:

>Questions about verified null move
>
>1. Should the verify be stored in the hash table?  At this time I store the
>verify in hash but think I am doing something wrong.  My program is playing
>stronger with standard null move set to R=3 than verified null move with R = 3.
>Possibly the verify should not be sorted?

If null-move search results in a reduction, (depth = depth - 1), then store the
reduced depth in the hash table.

>2. Is it normal to get more cuts in a search than reductions?  From The starting
>position I get 18636 reductions and 53901 cuts in 494148 nodes searched (360543
>of them Qnodes).  To me this does not look like it can be right.

It is perfectly fine. Reductions are usually in higher parts of the tree, and
cutoff closer to leafs, so the number of cutoffs will be much higher.

What is the total node count you get in vrfd R=3 in comparison to std R=2 and
std R=2 ?


>
>Thanks
>-Ryan



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