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Subject: Re: Null Move Hash Table Issues

Author: Chris Welty

Date: 07:03:03 09/09/04

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On September 09, 2004 at 09:45:08, Andrew Platt wrote:

>4r1k1/p1qr1p2/2pb1Bp1/1p5p/3P1n1R/1B3P2/PP3PK1/2Q4R w - -
>
>You may recognize this as WAC 141 (again!). The key move is Qxf4! which I spot
>at iterate ply 9, though I don't see the mate there because the search drops
>into the quiescent search where I don't see the final move Rh8# (I don't
>generate / deal with checks in qsearch).
>
>So we back up non-mate scores which, as expected, end up in the hash table -
>including the following:
>
>Qxf4 Be5 Rxh5 Bxf4 (ply 4, depth 270)

If this position was searched with remaining depth>0 it should be in your
hashtable as mate in 1. If it was searched with remaining depth=0 it should be
too shallow to impact your null-move search.



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