Re: [gnugo-devel] possible reading.c speedups

[Arend Bayer]

> 
> Null move is making the opponent pass (that is playing its worst
> possible move)
> to see if the attack can succeed even when the opponent plays this bad
> pass move.
(...)
> The trick is that you only search a small tree after the null move
> instead of 
> the full tree, so it saves time.
Ah, I missed that last bit. Hmm, this indeed seems useful.

Arend