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Subject: Re: nullmove and tactics

Author: Roberto Nerici

Date: 08:13:14 03/26/04

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>Making good use of the null move observation (that Zugzwang is rare in
>chess) is probably essential in order to write a good search, and I also
>think that allowing one side to make several moves in succession can be
>a very powerful technique (in order to find threats, plans, trajectories
>and similar stuff; there are probably big improvements to be found in this
>area).  However, it is hard to believe that conventional null move pruning
>is the best way to combine these ideas.  It should be possible to come up
>with something better, probably with the help of some more domain-dependent
>knowledge.

Interesting!

>I don't own the King (nor even a computer capable of running it), and I

Don't you use a Mac? I think there was a recent post here that mentioned that
Chessmaster is now available for MacOS X. Not that you are probably interested,
but since you mentioned it...

Roberto/.



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