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Subject: Re: Initial Position Search Nodes

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 14:45:16 10/09/00

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Dan,

Thanks for the input.  Your stats would indicate that my hash table / move
ordering is to blame - this is helpful.  I'll take a look.  Looks as though you
have created a fast program!

Thanks again,

Steve

>Mine (Shrike) is doing this in just under 3s (1.27M nodes) on a P3/600.
>It's getting about a 35% hit rate on the hash table, so this may well
>be the problem.  Those hash table moves are really important in getting
>good move ordering (and a low branching factor).
>
>I also keep stats on the fraction of cutoffs from the first move tried
>and the fraction that are from hash table moves.  In this case I'm
>getting 92% of the cutoffs from the first move and 25% from the hash table.
>
>-Dan.



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