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Subject: Re: Hashtable and avoid null move

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 04:04:02 05/08/04

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On May 08, 2004 at 06:13:39, Jeff GAZET wrote:

>Hi,
>
>when getting hashtable informations like this :
>
>switch(target->flags)
>	{
>	case hashfEXACT:	return target->eval; 			break;
>	case hashfALPHA:	if(i<=alpha) {return alpha;}		break;
>	case hashfBETA:		if(i>=beta) {return beta;}		break;
>	}
>
>In which case mustn'nt we do a null-move ?
>
>Thanks.

If your hash record for a node (position) does not have enough draft to return
from the search at this point, but does have enough draft (ie current_depth – R)
for the null move search and predicts that it will not fail high (ie the value <
beta) then you can avoid the null move search for this node.



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