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Subject: Re: hash numbers requested: authors please read

Author: James Swafford

Date: 04:25:31 09/18/02

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On September 17, 2002 at 23:43:17, Will Singleton wrote:

>On September 17, 2002 at 23:11:38, James Swafford wrote:
>
>>On September 17, 2002 at 22:01:42, Will Singleton wrote:
>>
>>>Could you define how you count those values?  People count nodes differently,
>>>and I'm not sure how you count fail highs or lows.  And some folks don't use
>>>fail soft, like me.
>>>
>>>Will
>>
>>Sure.  "Nodes" is the standard "all nodes."  Interior nodes
>>are all nodes not in the quiescence search.
>>
>
>I guess I meant, do you count nodes in makemove, or in calls to search and
>qsearch?  I do makemove, and my contention is that nodes aren't analogous if
>counted the other way.  I think that some folks count nodes in which makemove
>isn't actually called, thus inflating the node count.

I must be one of those folks. :)  I count nodes on entry to
Search( ) (except when depth==0), and qnodes on entry to QSearch( ).
My final report is the sum nodes+qnodes.

--
James


>
>Will



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