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

Author: James Swafford

Date: 08:21:55 09/22/05

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On September 22, 2005 at 11:05:50, Will Singleton wrote:

>On September 22, 2005 at 09:25:09, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>
>>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
>
>Sounds like significant progress.  fwiw, here's what I do:
>
>if (!last_was_null && allow_null && !escape && real_draft >= 1 && !in_pv) {
>
>   if (real_draft>4) current_reduction = 3;
>   else current_reduction = 2;
>
>}
>
>Allow_null is set by game stage and whether the king is being closely attacked
>without check.
>
>Will



Thanks for the response.  What is real_draft?  Is that ignoring
extensions?  And what is escape?  Escape from check?

--
James



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