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Subject: Re: no null moves near the leafs?

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 12:51:33 09/30/04

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On September 30, 2004 at 04:49:15, martin fierz wrote:

>On September 30, 2004 at 00:52:04, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>hi will,
>
>>If the previous move was a piece moving near the enemy king, I don't null move.
>>Also, don't null near the leafs.
>
>i'm wondering about your suggestion to not null near the leafs. i think i once
>tried that but it didn't work for me. i do checks on the first ply of qsearch
>though, which reduces problems with null-moves dropping straight into qsearch.
>
>could you give some more details of your approach? are you doing checks in QS or
>not? and how near is "near"?

Doesn't that cause your qsearch to slow down by having to do a full move
gen? My full movegen is slower than my capture gen.
>
>cheers
>  martin



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