Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:22:47 01/18/98
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On January 18, 1998 at 13:36:38, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >On January 18, 1998 at 10:56:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>On January 18, 1998 at 09:47:40, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >>>On January 18, 1998 at 07:36:26, Peter W. Gillgasch wrote: >>> >>>>00:01:00 6122978 nodes NPS: 101710.598007 >>> >>>Hi Peter, >>> >>>in terms of NPS "Chess Demon" seems to be hellishly fast indeed -- >>>congratulations! >>> >>>But what happened to your tree size? The current "DarkThought" needs >>>only 3.8 million nodes to complete iteration #11 of WAC #3. >>> >>>=Ernst= >> >>Could be explained by lots of things... > >Sure, I know that there are many plausible explanations. I just wanted >to hear one from Peter himself. :-) > >As far as I know him, Peter is an NPS addict. Thence, it is also >possible >for "Chess Demon" to be severely hampered in one way or the other in >order >to achieve very high NPS numbers. That's why I wondered about tree size. > >=Ernst= tell him to toss his move ordering out the window, and get rid of alpha/beta. Node counts will be phenomonal. :)
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