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Subject: Re: Is crafty the fastest program to calculate perft with no hash tables?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:44:23 06/20/01

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On June 20, 2001 at 13:14:37, Carlos del Cacho wrote:

>On June 20, 2001 at 07:35:24, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Crafty needs only 2.2 seconds to calculate perft 5(the number of legal games
>>with 5 moves) and only 54.76 seconds to calculate perft 6(119,060,324 nodes)
>>
>>It is clear that Crafty does not use hash tables to calculate perft faster.
>>
>>Is there another program (with free or without free source code) that can
>>calculate perft (without hash) faster than Crafty?
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>It is a well known fact that bitboards are slow at move generation using 32 bit
>architecture hardware. Some results on my K6 400 MHz
>
>Crafty 17.14     |  Pepito          | A 0x88 thing I'm messing with (ANSI C)
>                 |                  |
>ply 5:    8.02   |  ply 5:    6.91  | ply 5:  4.17
>ply 6:  196.96   |  ply 6:  161.00  | ply 6: 90.50

Depends on the chip used.  Here's an AMD 950 MHz:
---------------------------------
Crafty v18.10

White(1): perft 5
total moves=4865609  time=1.97
White(1):
---------------------------------
Pepito> perft 5

Time spent: 2.07
Paths searched: 4865609
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