Author: Will Singleton
Date: 13:21:06 02/11/99
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On February 11, 1999 at 12:52:27, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On February 11, 1999 at 08:23:10, Peter Fendrich wrote: > >>Can't check that from here, but it "must be": >>"Null Move and Deep Search: Selective-Search Heuristics for Obtuse Chess >>Programs." Donninger, C. (1993). >>ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 137-143. (A) >> >>I tried it but it was no hit. >>That doesn't mean that it couldn't work for other programmers in other >>programs... > >I expect that Ernst will respond, because he refined it and I think still uses >it. > >bruce I tried it (only allowing null-move when material imbalance exists) and found very little change. Regarding your thought about threat-detection and null-move, a reading of Anantharaman's article (ICCAJ 1991) indicates that he found little or no benefit to this. But I remember something about you detecting mate threats with null move. Is that right? Will
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