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Subject: Re: simple question about null-move

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 12:03:46 11/05/99

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On November 05, 1999 at 07:04:35, Antonio Dieguez wrote:

>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!

One ply can mean that you go two or three times faster.

Do some tactical tests.

I don't have any information about rate of error, but I know that R=2 seems to
find tactics faster than other settings, and way faster than not using null move
forward pruning at all.

Sorry, but I didn't understand your final question.

bruce




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