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Subject: Re: Perft(10) verified

Author: Mike Siler

Date: 14:00:05 12/10/03

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On December 09, 2003 at 10:29:00, Albert Bertilsson wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I've finally got around verifying perft(10) from the starting position and it
>is: 69352859712417, that is 69*10^12 nodes.
>
>It took 85 hours for my four computers to calculate it. If some people has a
>couple of spare cpu cycles perft(11) would be no mayor problem to calculate.
>
>Hardware used:
>XP2100+ (256MB hash)
>XP1700+ (128MB hash) (not working on the problem 24/7)
>Celeron 800 (128MB hash) (not contributing very much =))
>P4 2GHz (256MB hash) (not working on the problem 24/7)
>
>/Regards Albert

Maybe I'm missing something here, but aren't hash tables really risky here? You
are bound to get lots of collisions and even one collision would mean that your
final count is wrong.

Michael



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