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Subject: Re: NULL move question

Author: David Blackman

Date: 22:45:49 01/19/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 23:20:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:


>
>That isn't necessarily true.  I have seen 100 move games with queens and rooks
>still on the board.  And (at least in my case) we can take evasive action to
>recognize some zug positions and not let them become a problem...
>

But the nodes in the search tree have different characteristics on average than
the positions likely to come up in an actual game. For one thing, most programs
tend to do at least some captures early in the movelist at any given node. That
results in most lines in the tree shedding material very quickly.



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