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Subject: Re: Questions about verified null move

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:20:31 07/21/03

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On July 20, 2003 at 13:02:26, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>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 ?

This is bullshit science.

Time to solution counts.

Note that finding tricks fast says nothing about playing strength either.

>
>>
>>Thanks
>>-Ryan



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