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Subject: Re: Is the NPS for minimax devided by NPS in alpha-beta = 5 ?

Author: leonid

Date: 10:16:57 06/16/00

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On June 16, 2000 at 12:34:58, Michel Langeveld wrote:

>No nps of alpha-beta and minimax will be almost the same. But the total number
>of and the total amount of time will be a much lesser.

Your first statement sound to me as something near to impossible. Just recently
Bas Hamstra said that minimax speed is around 800000 nodes/second. Computer was
indicated as Pentium 466M. Usual number of nodes/second that I see on my AMD
400M (for some best chess games like: Crafty, Xchess, Comet...)is around 150000.
Even from this I can see that: 800000:150000=5.3 times.

Leonid.

>>Hi!
>>
>>Is the number between minimax nodes/second, devided on number of nodes/second
>>for alpha-beta, equal to around five?
>>
>>If, for instance, one position in minimax give 1000000 NPS, the same position
>>but solved by alpha-beta logic will indicate around 200000 NPS speed?
>>
>>Leonid.



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