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Subject: Re: quiet search

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:23:31 06/27/98

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On June 26, 1998 at 11:03:24, Inmann Werner wrote:

>Today I did some "time waste counting" of my program.
>
>There I found something amazing for me (maybe not for you).
>From all nodes visited during search,
>quiet search takes more than 50% of all these nodes!
>
>Is this normal or is the program stupid?
>
>I don“t allow null-move in quiet search. In the test, I only produce beating
>moves, rochade and pawns conversions.
>
>I did the test with different positions.
>
>How much time do other programs spend in the quiet search?
>
>Werner

In fact all systemtime, as i evaluate in quiescencesearch.
But you probably refer to the number of nodes i need to do moves
in q-search.

that's about 10-50% depending on position, but i also do checks and
such, which greatly increases everything.



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