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Subject: Null Move R Value: what do you use?

Author: James Swafford

Date: 06:25:09 09/22/05



I recently switched from R=2 to R=3 in Prophet.  It looked
very promising at first... I got my first two wins against
Arasan on ICC.  However, after watching more games, it seems
a bit too aggressive.  Prophet completely self destructed
against Tinker almost right out of the opening.

I'll have to experiment a bit, but I'll probably settle on
some R=2/3 compromise.

How many of you use R=2?  R=3?  If you do R=2/3, what kind
of algorithm do you use to decide?  I used one proposed by
(I think) Vincent in Tristram: don't allow R=3 twice in a
row (or three times in a row?), and it seemed to work pretty
good.

--
James



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