Author: Mark Taylor
Date: 04:39:17 01/28/00
In null move, (as I understand it- please correct me if I'm wrong), a player misses a move (i.e. lets the opponent play 2 moves in succession), and if no significant change in the eval occurs then further searching from that node is abandoned (on the basis that if you can up a move without suffering then your position must be solid)? My question is this - being forced to make a move in Chess can be disastrous in certain positions (esp. in the endgame), and in this type of position misleading results would be obtained. It seems to me that a better approach would be to make a single move (any move) rather than no move at all - the resulting tree would be the same size and therefore the overheads should not be that much greater. Can anyone help me with an explanation? Thanks, Mark Taylor.
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