Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 08:53:53 01/26/01
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On January 26, 2001 at 11:21:46, Severi Salminen wrote: >Hi! > >Once upon a time there was a funny creature called Nellie the NPS... > > If I remove SEE from my engine I get a 2x speed up in terms of NPS. This of >course results in an increase in number of nodes to be searched. Overall it >seems that with SEE the strenght is not much higher than without. The funny >thing is also that removing all futility pruning code results another increase >in NPS (about 2x-3x). It is likely that removing it also decreases the strenght. > The point of this stupid message is that: DON'T MAKE ANY CONCLUSIONS OF >STRENGHT BASED ON NPS. > >I have spoken... > >Severi "I'm tired" Salminen If you "advance" to a pure minmax search, you'll again get a higher nps.
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