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Subject: Re: Q: Singular extensions

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 11:58:38 01/06/04

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On January 06, 2004 at 14:32:58, Slater Wold wrote:

>On January 05, 2004 at 08:48:23, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>  Hi, I'd like to try singular extensions in my program. I've been trying to
>>think about it and all my tries so far result in worse performance. After some
>>web search I haven't been able to find anything but the general idea described.
>>  Is there any good description somewhere? Some pseudo-code? I guess there must
>>be something interesting in the archives but I can't download all of them.
>>  Thanks in advance,
>>
>>  José C.
>
>SE and nullmove do not mix.  And that's straight from Hsu.  From speaking with
>him (via e-mail), I gathered that this would be his approach using nullmove, and
>I tried it in Crafty with very nominal success:

they seem to work just fine in Ferret, arguably the strongest tactical program
out there.

anthony



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