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Subject: Re: Null move R=3 is good

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 08:30:59 01/01/00

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On January 01, 2000 at 07:39:53, David Blackman wrote:

>Like most chess programmers, i've been experimenting with null move ever since i
>got a basic alpha-beta search working. It seemed to help a little in most
>mid-game positions. Often it would allow searching a ply or so deeper. Turns out
>i wasn't doing it right. If you do it right it's much, much better than that.
>More hints after my program wins something major :-)
>
>(I still have to put back in all the stuff i ripped out to get a simple platform
>for experimentation. Then i have to do some work on the static eval, which has
>always been weak. But already it's looking good ... )

Now you're scaring us.



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