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Subject: Re: simple question about null-move

Author: Antonio Dieguez

Date: 17:24:35 11/05/99

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On November 05, 1999 at 15:59:00, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>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.
>
>This is easy to test. Where you do your null-move, instead of doing a cutoff,
>just set a flag. When you return the real value, if it does not cause a cutoff,
>it is a null-move error. Count the null-move errors, and total null-moves, and
>get the percentage error. Another idea is to save the positions that cause
>errors, and analyze them to see what they have in common.

Yea I will do that, I just was thinking in a magic wand response tell me some
results only :)

be luck.



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