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Commit ID 626b1f8c6adc6c6b1bd7dc30109cd7fa5f3c44d8
Author Marco Costalba
Date 2010-04-10 09:35:29 UTC
Avoid TT cutoffs at root of null zugzwang verification This patch fixes an issue with zugzwang well explained by Tord: "Assume that a zugzwang position occurs at iteration N, at a search depth d, with d < 6*OnePly. The null move search fails high, and no verification search is done, because the depth is too small. The position gets stored in the transposition table with a good score and a depth of d. Now, consider what happens when the same position occurs at iteration N+1, this time with a depth of d+OnePly (i.e. one ply deeper than at the previous iteration). Once again, the null move search fails high. The point is that the verification search will also fail high, because of an instant transposition table cutoff caused by the value stored in the TT during the previous iteration." With this patch we simply do not allow TT cutoffs at the root node of a null move verification search if the TT value was found by a null search. Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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