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Subject: Re: Nodes per second

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:47:15 06/24/98

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On June 24, 1998 at 04:08:23, Inmann Werner wrote:

>What are nodes per second.
>I count, how often alpha-beta is called in a search, and taht are my nodes.
>Is this correct, or should I count the generated moves?
>It is not really important, but everybody speaks about, how many nps a program
>makes, and if everybody defines nodes different, all compares a nonsense.
>On the other hand, nps only give sense, if there is no computer thinking on
>opponents time!?
>
>Werner



that's what most of us are doing...  and your count should be
comparable to ours... just add nodes++; to the top of search()
and quiesce();



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