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Subject: Re: Initial Position Search Nodes

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 08:04:29 10/09/00

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On October 09, 2000 at 09:24:08, Steve Maughan wrote:

>OK so here’s a middlegame position - nothing special.  It’s actually AnMon v
>Ikarus the games move was Rd2 but there doesn’t seem to be too many tactics
>flying about.
>
>[d]r1br2k1/1pq2pbp/2p3p1/p1n5/2NN4/4P1P1/PPR1BPP1/3Q1RK1 w - - 0 21
>
>So my program (it has no name) takes 70 seconds and uses 17,059,562 nodes to
>complete the _eighth_ ply.  There are also only 3.3% of nodes where there are a
>hash hit – a bit low maybe?

Yes, it looks like that. ( Sorry, have to go now ) Check if the storage of A/B
nodes are ok in your hashtable. ( and depth )

Tony

>
>Other programs:
>
>Faile 56 secs and ~4,600 kn
>Crafty 17.11  9 secs and ~1,500 kn
>Ikarus 22 secs and ~2,900 kn
>Goliath Light 8 secs and 1,800 kn
>HIARCS 7.32 36 secs and 1,692 kn
>Nimzo 7.32 6 secs and ~1,700 kn
>ExChess 3.11 9 secs and ~1,200 kn
>
>Clearly there is something wrong with my program or is this what one would
>expect from a young vanilla alpha / beta?
>
>Steve Maughan



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