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Subject: simple question about null-move

Author: Antonio Dieguez

Date: 04:04:35 11/05/99


I just implemented recursive null-move, with a reduction of 2 plies.

Obviusly a 1 ply reduction is safe enough, but 2, wich is the usual, for me
looks not so safe, for example trusting that a yours-mine instead a
mine-yours-mine-yours will give a minimum is a little optimistic isnt? and
anybody have done a test about the percent of mistakes of the null-move or
something? I mean when the score of the best move at the position, without
null-move, results worse than the result doing null-move.

Also am seeing not so much improvement, just from 1/2 to 1 ply.

Another question, where do you make it works? in every node if eval>beta+a (a
could be 0) from profundity let say n to the final or from a constant distance
of the final (from final-n to the final) ?

Thanks.Sorry my bad english and have a nice day!



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