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Subject: Re: not using nullmove? [generalized null move]

Author: Bruce Cleaver

Date: 17:15:58 02/14/04

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"Why not use a logarithmic scale based on the difference between the best
possible move and the move under consideration?"

Ron Rivest (he is the "R" in the RSA encryption algorithm) wrote a chess
algorithm called min-max approximation, which computes the first derivative
(really!!) of the score's change as a means to shape the search.  It has
somewhat the same flavor as your idea.

It is really beautiful, but has two flaws:  it is a best-first searcher
(therefore exponential in memory), and heavily involves floating-point calcs.
The first objection can be overcome in the standard way, but not the second.



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