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Subject: Re: TranspositionTables and NULL-move

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:45:43 03/11/04

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On March 10, 2004 at 04:49:48, Renze Steenhuisen wrote:

>Hi anyone!



>Today I tested the effects the saving of NULL-move search results has on the
>size of the search-tree. The conclusion was unexpected!
>
>I compared saving LOWER, EXACT, and UPPER bound values only in the PVS part of
>the code, with additionally saving the LOWER bound value from the NULL-move
>cut-off.
>
>To my surprise, the additional information had a negative impact on the size of
>the search-tree! And I do not understand why or how this is possible.
>
>Can it be because my evaluation() is not really good yet?
>Is it a real error somewhere?

Must be bugs somewhere, the bug can be anywhere but most likely search.

>Some comments/thoughts/experience is very much appreciated!
>
>Renze



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