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Subject: Re: minimax vs. alpha-beta, my data

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:34:11 06/16/00

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On June 16, 2000 at 15:59:39, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On June 16, 2000 at 13:49:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>Minimax: 2219093
>>Alpha-beta: 1753779
>>
>>This was on my 800MHz Pentium III.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>Probably the reason this happened is that there is more search overhead in
>alpha-beta, because your big loop will not execute as many times if you use
>alpha-beta.  The tree searched is deeper and less bushy, so you get more move
>generations, recursive function calls, etc.
>
>If the eval function slows down significantly, NPS should become more identical.
>
>The initial question is kind of pointless though.  It's like comparing the
>performance of strlen versus that of strcat.  It's not like the one replaces the
>other.
>
>bruce

Right, I was just trying to show that there's not a factor of 5 difference.
-Tom



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