Author: Antonio Dieguez
Date: 18:52:53 02/11/03
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On February 11, 2003 at 20:57:16, Nathan Thom wrote: >Ive just finished implementing a Q search for LittleThought, and was trying to >get a feel for my node stats compared with other engines out there. What % of >the total nodes searched are Q nodes in varying kinds of positions? eg opening, >middle game, end game etc. > >I have a feeling my q nodes are way way too many :) Just in case, q nodes don't count leaf nodes. you could do a search, I think this was discussed before. You just implemented it, so I suposse comparing is not so great but anyway, my % in middlegame positions is 31%. If I remember well Christophe Theron once said good would be <30%..., but I don't remember of what kind of qsearch he was talking about, with/without checks etc. and he is not god, I think Diepeveen mentioned 40%, etc. Note that even if you don't count leaf nodes, the size of the % of qsearch nodes does not only depends on the qsearch itself, for example if I use a bit more nullmove in a place I suddenly get 36% qsearch nodes, and if I relax it completely I am sure the % would be more. that's all from me, bye.
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