Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 03:42:27 10/27/05
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On October 26, 2005 at 19:45:18, Maurizio Monge wrote: >Thanks for your detailed anwer, Tord. >So, if i understood correctly, the extension is activated >when the null move fails because of a strong reply and the >reply is still avalable for the other player after 2 plys. Yes, exactly. >It means that, to be able to do this, it is no more enough >to do the null move search with a zero window (-beta,-beta+1), >like my experimental program do at the moment (Fruit 2.1 >does this too), because this way you could miss the strong >reply... You can use the extension even with zero window null move searches (in fact I have never used anything else than zero windows myself), although of course it will trigger less often then. Tord
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