Author: Charles Roberson
Date: 19:07:19 01/04/06
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On January 04, 2006 at 21:49:48, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On January 04, 2006 at 17:41:54, Charles Roberson wrote:
>
>
>Yes it is common for beginner engines that when they implement nullmove for
>first time, they play worse.
>
>All bugs in hashtable and qsearch and elsewhere backtrack sooner to the root
>then.
>
>However assuming a bugfree program and an improvement in search, that will
>always result in better play of course.
>
>Vincent
>
Agreed!! And under bugs elsewhere, I assume you also inlcude PE's that are
sufficiently out of tune.
PS: I hear the weather in Europe is rough now. Visiting there in July of
2002 sounds like a better choice than winter.
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