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Subject: Re: NULL move question

Author: m.d.hurd

Date: 13:55:06 01/17/00

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On January 17, 2000 at 16:47:24, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I have a theory that NULL move hurts at very, very long calculation times.
>
>The reason I suspect that it is true is that if one position in ten thousand is
>a zugzwang type and you consider a billion positions, a lot of them will be NULL
>moves.  Most of them will be the kind that really should be avoided (maybe 99%
>or even 99.9%) but the 0.1-1% that really should be responded to get ignored.
>When only a few million nodes are searched, I doubt if there is a problem except
>in rare circumstances.
>
>Opinions?  Am I all wet?

Spilt your drink again did we   :-))

Mike




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