Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 07:02:36 11/23/03
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On November 23, 2003 at 02:50:52, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 22, 2003 at 09:55:23, Jeremiah Penery wrote: > >>>Don't forget thats 17 ply with hard forward pruning and slim eval >>>vs 17 ply without forward pruning and a huge eval. >> >>R=3 nullmove isn't forward pruning? > >You know what I mean, so why bother making a comment like that? Because the amount of pruning that nullmove does is a huge amount, and there are a ton of positions where it can cause a program to miss subtle tactics even when there is no outright zugzwang. To say a nullmoving program uses no forward pruning is highly misleading, IMO.
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