Author: Don Dailey
Date: 08:21:35 01/18/98
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On January 18, 1998 at 03:08:27, Peter W. Gillgasch wrote: >Ok, we have a slight difference. I am *not* counting illegal positions >at all, since they don't contribute anything useful (one could argue >that they are useful for detectin checkmate, but this is splitting hairs >;). Regarding the qsearch nodes, I believe we are counting the same way. > >-- Peter Hi Peter, I basically agree with you. There is no right or wrong since it is simply a convention we might agree upon but I do argue that it would make node counts incompatible between programs. If my program does a static test and does not count the node and someone elses plays the illegal move and gets captured then the same exact calculation is taking place in both programs with 2 different notions of how many nodes were calculated. But as you say, this is splitting hairs and the numbers are very similar anyway. - Don
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