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Subject: Re: Does this position blow up your program?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:37:10 12/25/02

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On December 25, 2002 at 09:00:09, John Lowe wrote:

>On December 25, 2002 at 07:21:03, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 25, 2002 at 07:05:43, Richard Bean wrote:
>>
>>>movei:
>>>
>>>>>perft 5 13,853,661(0.922 seconds)
>>>>>perft 6 115,892,741(38.505 seconds)
>>>>>perft 7 17,650,572,059(time 1182.761 seconds on 1000 mhz)
>>>
>>>Crafty and my program output 470,702,875 and 17,650,572,059 - 470,702,875 =
>>>2^34. I must forgotten a "long long" somewhere in the version I still have.
>>>
>>>Also chest gets the above perft result.
>>>
>>>Can someone verify my perft 10 result from the initial position -
>>>69,353,847,899,771, or verify the number of unique nodes at plies 4 to 8?
>>
>>movei on 1000 mhz
>>perft 4 197281 time 0.02 seconds
>>perft 5 4865609 time 0.601 seconds
>>perft 6 119060324 time 15.222 seconds
>>perft 7 3,195,901,860 time 385.494 seconds
>>
>>You can see that for perft 8 I may need more than 2 hours
>>I need some days for perft 9 and I need some months for perft 10 and many years
>>for perft 11.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Forgive an observation from one who knows 0 (+/-6), but although doing the Full
>Monty at ply 1 may usually be irrelevant it must be the cheapest irrelevancy in
>computer chess.
>
>You would have needed a different position for timing your beasties.
>
>Cheers
>
>John

He asked for the initial position
It can work also for other positions.

It can be faster but I use my full chess program and
it does irrelevant calculations of scores that will be used for order of moves.

Uri



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