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Subject: Re: NULL move question

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 08:54:47 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 11:37:17, Peter Fendrich wrote:
[snip]
>Your statistics is probably good enough but the problem is that these
>probablilities aren't evenly distributed among all kinds of root positions. In
>ordinary middle game positions, yes and then it doesn't hurt a lot. In many end
>game and some other kind of positions it hurts so badly that you just can't
>ignore it.
>
>If the risk was evenly and "randomly" distributed among all root positions we
>could completely ignore the bad effects ...
>
>... but reality is more beautiful than that!

Since it becomes more prominent in the endgame, when there are fewer pieces on
the board, it seems it may be a function of degrees of freedom.



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