Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:51:40 01/17/98
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On January 17, 1998 at 19:03:49, Peter W. Gillgasch wrote: >I always counted interior nodes which result in a strictly legal >position only. The same way Bob counts his nodes I think. DarkThought >did that, Chess Demon does that too. > >-- Peter Hi Peter. Part of your above statement is wrong, but I'm not sure which part. :) In any case, Crafty makes illegal moves, advances to the next ply, generates moves, one of which will capture the king and kick it back to the previous ply. And I still count that. I'm counting "work done" rather than estimating the number of *real* positions I saw. And I do just as much work making an illegal move as I do making a normal move. However, I've counted 'em forever like this, and so does everyong else I assume. Only real confusion I have seen is that I count depth=0 nodes as q-nodes, most count them as regular nodes and count depth <0 nodes as q-nodes... so when we compare regular vs quiescence we have problems...
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