Author: leonid
Date: 11:10:24 06/16/00
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On June 16, 2000 at 13:25:41, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 I doubt that his program is 5 time faster. I think that his program at alpha-beta will be around 200000 nps. Leonid.
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