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Subject: Re: null move and move ordering

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 00:04:33 03/22/04

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On March 22, 2004 at 01:27:56, Mike Siler wrote:

>When I'm not using null move, my move ordering (fail-high on first move /
>fail-high) is usually slightly higher than 90%. But when I use null move
>pruning, my move ordering drops significantly, down to as low as 45% in some
>positions. Has any experienced similar phenomenon or have any clues as to what
>could be going on?
>
>Michael



If you count null-move-fail-highs as normal fail-highs, there should
be a drop of about 10%, not much more, except your null move has bugs.

/Matthias.



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