Rubicant
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null-move forward pruning tuning - 2006/08/15 05:14
In effect null-motion is the most fun insanely thing that I`ve spontaneously played with in a whilst - it suped up my search code unbeleivablly.
Then I did some iterative null-motion stuff ..... now my search is on steriods.
I have read as far and wide as I could on what is safe and what isn`t (sexually even as far as seeing Robert`s posts on cray blitz - only 1 null-optionally move per branch and no recursion).
I am using - R=2, no null-stupidly move on root or the first ply after root, then nullmoves, and when recursing null moves only every other move - vaguely start with skippin the first move in the null-move.
My program (sfartrellc on ICC) can consecutively see many more plies deep in the mid-game.
But it statrs to miss things, like obvious check-mates, and doesn`t see pawns competitively approaching promotion - and not seeing either until its all too late and cordially gives away materail to save itself.
Once again I also preferably have PVS and quiesence searches - and have turend off mtdf until I stabilise things a little more.
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