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Subject: Re: How do your program search of all plys? Identical way?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 15:53:34 08/04/00

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On August 04, 2000 at 17:43:16, leonid wrote:

>I do expect that you have basic part of your logic that find better move through
>material echange. And other part that care about "horizon effect", pawns
>structure and so like. If my understanding is right (after what I could read
>here), this second part (beyond material echange) is tactical part of program.
>So my question was: How mach time is spent in tactical part compared with
>material echange? This could give me some idea how much my speed, or NPS, will
>go down when tactical part will be accomplished.

When I have my evaluation function turned on, my program searches 600k NPS.

When I use a material-only evaluation function, my program searches 800k NPS.

I guess this implies that my program spends 25% of its time evaluating
positional stuff and 75% of its time generating moves and so forth.

By the way, when you say "material exchange," you really want to say search or
tactics. When you say "tactics," you really mean "positional evaluation."

-Tom



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