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

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 12:15:35 06/20/01

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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

You can even use Chest for this (option -G depth):
5   4865609  2.300 sec
6 119060324 56.440 sec

Done on an AMD K6-3 with 400 MHz.
Clever use of hash tables and/or special tuning for this job could speed
this up, if necessary/wanted.  For me it is fast enough.

Heiner



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