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Subject: Re: recursive nullmove question

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 17:10:11 08/13/99

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On August 13, 1999 at 18:56:09, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On August 13, 1999 at 16:45:56, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>
>>On August 13, 1999 at 16:20:13, vitor wrote:
>>
>>>hi,
>>>i know how nullmove pruning works, but could someone please explain how
>>>recursive nullmove works? is it just doing lots of consecutive nullmoves?
>>>thanks
>>
>>It means that you allow several nullmoves within the same path in the search as
>>opposed to ensuring that no more Nullmoves will be done below this one.
>>
>>Not consecutive, however. It is no good idea to answear a Nullmove with another
>>one. That will be two "pass" after each other and nothing happens. So no
>>Nullmoves in the ply directly following a Nullmove, but in the next ply further
>>down it's ok again.
>>
>>//Peter
>
>	Some people allow two (but not three) consecutive null-moves, in the hope of
>catching some zugzwangs this way.
>José.

True, but it's a costly trick, IMO. One idea, I got right now, is to restrict it
in some way and only use it when zugswang is likely. Maybe possible? I don't
know and have never tried it.
//Peter



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