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Subject: Re: null-move Q-search

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:40:46 10/30/99

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On October 30, 1999 at 17:11:49, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On October 30, 1999 at 16:15:05, Bert van den Akker wrote:
>
>>Can sombody tell me how the null-move concept can be used in
>>the Q-search.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>Bert van den Akker
>
>I was wondering too, but I didn't dare to ask! :)
>
>
>    Christophe


The article you want is "Selective search with no tears" by Don Beal.  It was
a cute way to control which captures were interesting to follow and which could
just be canned.

very similar to how we do null-move today in fact, just used for a different
thing when he talked about the q-search approach.



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