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

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:00:26 06/16/00

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On June 16, 2000 at 14:54:18, leonid wrote:

>On June 16, 2000 at 14:12:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>So, what your obove sentence say? In simple term? That 800000 NPS is just usual
>speed (or more exactly, number of positions seen) of its program? Never mind if
>logic use minimax or alpha-beta? Number of positions seen is always 800k?
>
>Leonid.

I think that he means that 800000 nps is usual speed if you want to use alpha
beta+only material evaluation and when your program is as fast as possible in
nodes per second(this means that you do not have extension rules and that you do
not try to use good order of moves)

Programs usually do not do it because programmers want to develop better
programs and not to be the champion in nodes per second so they are slower in
nodes per second.

Uri



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