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Subject: Re: Playing the NPS game

Author: leonid

Date: 11:56:47 09/28/01

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On September 28, 2001 at 06:59:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 27, 2001 at 22:02:42, leonid wrote:
>
>>On September 26, 2001 at 14:25:50, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>I have been wondering about my engines speed lately.
>>>
>>>Right now, I do about 110 knps in the middlegame on
>>>an Athlon 1000.
>>
>>
>>I can say nothing about your question but it is curious for me.
>>
>>If you could send to me some position (as heavy as you can) and say me what NPS
>>you have for searching the mate by brute force (if you have this kind of search)
>
>Unfortunately, I haven't :(
>
>I'm also not so sure what kind of search you mean.
>
>Would material-only search without pruning suffice?

I am not sure about this.

Brute force search is search for perfect move at given depth. Brute force for
mate search is the search (this part is the most simple to explain) where
program will never miss shortest mate.

Leonid.

>GCP



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