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Subject: Re: GES_126 available o/t

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 08:29:30 10/25/04

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On October 25, 2004 at 08:14:18, David B Weller wrote:

>Hi Stuart,
>
>Well, one thing was that my main iterative search driver was calling search
>WITHOUT null-move enabled, so null-move was never tried at ply=2. [only ply=3,
>etc.] I am not totally convinced that it was that big a deal, however.

I have one routine search() for all plies instead of the more standard
searchroot() for ply == 0 and search() for ply == 1..N.

Early in the program's history, I did not disable null move when ply == 0
but now do. I found that that plus another change fixed my PV.

>
>also, I had some code to try and 'help' outside passers, which was basically
>adding a bunch of bogus values all througout....
>
>and my 'material-imbalance' code had a severe error -
>
>BTW, do you acknowledge such things in your material+pst eval? [ie., material
>imbalances and even bishop pairs] since they are really only material related
>and so easily measured...

Hope to. :-)

Stuart



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