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Re: May I Ask What You Think Of This?

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Greg Strong wrote:One thing that seems to be working for me is LMR reduction of two plies for moves where the piece moves to a square attacked by the other side but not defended. But I do a full eval at every node so I have that information on hand already.
I tried a couple of variations of that (SEE < 0, reduce 2 or even 3) but did not find anything that passed "the cluster test". At least, not so far.