Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:25:41 06/16/00
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On June 16, 2000 at 13:16:57, leonid wrote: >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. Then his program is 5.3 times faster. This has virtually nothing to do with alpha beta vs. minimax. -Tom
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