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Subject: Re: null move question

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 12:13:17 10/06/04

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On October 06, 2004 at 04:49:49, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On October 05, 2004 at 16:43:38, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>>What, if best move after null is the reverse previous move,
>>like doing three alternated null moves in a row.
>>What can we conclude then?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Gerd
>
>When this is happening and the nullmove is evaluated as bad, it's a "zugzwang
>alert". One idea is to re-evaluate the null move in order to find if it's really
>a zugzwang. If not I suppose it's not telling us anything special...
>
>/Peter

Yes, may be the whole idea sucks.

If nullmove is evaluated as bad, there might be better refutations than the
reverse move, which may accidently tried first with cut.

I suggest, if nullmove fails high with reverse of previous move is best, to do a
(conditional) confirmation search and to do some extensions if the confirmation
search is less or equal beta.

Gerd






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