Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:12:47 06/16/00
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On June 16, 2000 at 14:10:24, leonid wrote: >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. I don't see why you post if you don't listen to anybody. See the data that I posted near the root of this thread. -Tom
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