Author: Severi Salminen
Date: 08:47:53 09/18/02
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>>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. I was once also like you are now, but I evolved :) So, the most common method is to call only nodes called _from_ qsearch as qnodes. Not the first node when you enter qsearch. So don't increase qnodes at the start of qsearch but only after you call qsearch _again_ in qsearch. The logic (I believe) to call a node a qnode is that a qnode is no longer 100% secure -> ie. that position was reached excluding normal moves. Severi
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