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Subject: Re: Magical holy null-move

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 14:49:01 02/05/00

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On February 05, 2000 at 12:25:49, KarinsDad wrote:

>On February 04, 2000 at 17:00:25, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>	I think it is more popular than other pruning schemes because it is simpler,
>>not because it is neccesarily better.
>
>José,
>
>Could you recommend any other pruning schemas which are more complex (or chess
>specific) to implement, but have fewer blind spots to them (I guess any pruning
>technique will have something it is blind to, but it would be good to know of
>other options and their strengths and weaknesses).
>
>KarinsDad :)

	I am not a chess programmer, so I can not make specific recommendations. I am
aware of the existence of forward-pruning schemes other than null-move. For
example, Rebel does not use null move (but does forward pruning), I do not know
if Ed is willing to reveal what he does.
José.



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