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Subject: Re: Something wrong with my futility pruning?

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 14:42:47 12/05/00

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On December 05, 2000 at 16:46:17, Severi Salminen wrote:


>BTW. Does my node counts look reasonable? I'm using MVV/LVA ordering in qsearch
>+ nullmoves (R=2).

No, they don't reasonable. I'm getting less than 1/8 of your node count
at ply 8.

I highly recommend instrumenting your program so that it prints out
a search tree showing node alpha/beta windows, scores, and cutoffs. A
close examination of this can show you what's going wrong (of course,
looking at 4 million nodes isn't feasible, but if you have a basic
problem then it will be apparent at low search depths). You can compare
your output to another program like Crafty : Crafty's trace command
will produce this information during a search (you will need to
compile it with -DTRACE to enable this feature).

--Jon




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