Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 11:54:43 02/10/99
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On February 09, 1999 at 22:59:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: > > >one of the big 'time savers' is what happens _below_ a sacrifice for nothing. >Qxp pxq. And now no matter what two moves white plays in a row, black's >position is still 'good' and everything below such moves gets trimmed away >instantly... > >IE with a full-width search, there are _many_ captures that are losers. Null >move reduces the depth below these moves and make dismissing them quick and >easy... This makes me wonder whether null move is even worthwhile if there is not a large material difference. I would think that with even material null move would be much less likely to produce a cutoff and much more likely to give a false cutoff.
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