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Subject: Re: My miscellany of minor chess programming problems ?

Author: rasjid chan

Date: 12:32:56 08/27/05

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On August 27, 2005 at 11:20:28, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On August 27, 2005 at 11:16:42, Daniel Shawul wrote:
>
>>   If null move fails high at pv node(position is too good to search further),
>>will the pv not be shorter? ofcourse in this case there will be a fail/low at
>>the root  , but the pv will still be short. If you want to have full long pvs
>>always (even in fail highs/lows at root), you have to either disable your
>>prunings at pv nodes Or use plain -INF,INF window which will give the same
>>effect as the former.
>
>I'm sorry, as usual I forgot about aspiration windows.  Aspiration windows
>have never worked for me, and I tend to forget that most other people use
>them.
>
>Tord

I cannot press this nullmove,pruning issue of Daniel as I may not actually
understand what it is all about. Offhand(ie possibly wrong),say the second move
improves on the first. I cannot understand how nullmove, pruning, etc. affect
pv or its length, etc . They are meant to improve search, ie getting "this" new
pv faster through pruning and eliminating nodes drastically with nullmove. It is
not like they give a different search result. I will think again when it is the
time.

Rasjid




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