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Subject: Re: Junior 4.6 and the null move technique

Author: Carsten Kossendey

Date: 04:34:02 03/19/98

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On March 19, 1998 at 06:23:45, Roland Pfister wrote:

>On March 19, 1998 at 02:24:55, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 1998 at 22:25:24, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>here's crafty running on my notebook, default (small) hash and all:
>>>
>>>              depth   time  score   variation (1)

[snip]

>>>                4     0.08     ++   1. Rd1+!!

[snip]

>>>                9->   0.73  Mat07   1. Rd1+ Rg1 2. Rf1 a5 3. bxa5 b4 4.
>>>                                    a6 Rxf1+ 5. Kxf1 b3 6. a7 b2 7.
>>>a8=Q#
>>>              time:  0.74  cpu:83%  mat:-2  n:51447  nps:10000
>>
>
>something is wrong here:
>51447 nodes in 0.74 seconds is never 10000 nps rather 70000 nps.
>or should it be 5.14 seconds ;-)
>
>>If Crafty does only 10000 nps on your notebook, this computer is quite
>>slow. So Crafty is probably the best program so far on this position,
> ^^^^
>see above

Crafty does not compute a nps value if the search took less than 1 sec.
In that case the nps from the last search is used. If no last search
exists (i.e. you just launched it) a predefined value is used instead.



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