diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index b43a9e5b6..76b4f71ca 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Andy Duplain
 Antoine Champion (antoinechampion)
 Aram Tumanian (atumanian)
 Arjun Temurnikar
+Aron Petkovski (fury)
 Artem Solopiy (EntityFX)
 Auguste Pop
 Balazs Szilagyi
diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index e698e2c7f..c5534924b 100644
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -848,12 +848,10 @@ Value Search::Worker::search(
     }
 
     // Step 9. Null move search with verification search
-    if (cutNode && (ss - 1)->currentMove != Move::null() && eval >= beta
+    if (cutNode && (ss - 1)->currentMove != Move::null()
         && ss->staticEval >= beta - 19 * depth + 389 && !excludedMove && pos.non_pawn_material(us)
         && ss->ply >= nmpMinPly && !is_loss(beta))
     {
-        assert(eval - beta >= 0);
-
         // Null move dynamic reduction based on depth
         Depth R = 7 + depth / 3;