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Subject: Re: Null Move and The Washington Post (more)

Author: Andrew Platt

Date: 04:55:58 09/23/04

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On September 23, 2004 at 04:16:35, Tony Werten wrote:

>If you allow nullmoves cutoffs during the verification search, you'll still have
>problems.

Yes, I started to think about this last night. In the original paper by Tabibi
and Netanyahu they say to just do a shallower regular search on verify but that
uses the same null move (R=3, no material consideration) as the non-verify one.
So I'm thinking that I should have two different null move conditions. The first
would be when we're not verifying a null move, would use R=3 and wouldn't check
material considerations. The second would be when we're verifying a null move
that would check material and use R=2; we would use that one when in verify
mode.

So far verified null move hasn't been a huge saver; the paper does say it comes
in more useful at plies 10+ though I haven't seen complete evidence of that. I
might just ditch it for now but I'll probably play around with the idea of only
using verified null move on later iterations.

Andy.



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