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Subject: Re: Hash tables and data-cache, some programmer stuff...

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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