Re: Ref.: Re: computer-go: [Question] Alpha-Beta Pruning & Null Move

[heikki@xxxxxx]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 02:00:16PM +0200, Joan Pons Semelis wrote:
> If I've understood correctly null-move will be useful mainly to prune the
> moves that are worst than pass. This really looks interesting in chess,
> but in go it's hard to have this kind of moves. And being usually of the
> type "don't put your-self in atari" are easily avoided by more heuristical
> means.

I could also imagine that null-move would be useful in reading life and
death problems. "Is it already dead if I don't do anything?", type of thing.

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Heikki Levanto  LSD - Levanto Software Development   <heikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>