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Subject: Re: Engine outputs

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 01:22:49 02/17/03

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On February 16, 2003 at 20:12:34, Nathan Thom wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Just wondering what the standard is for displaying output from an engine. ie
>does the node counts include leaf nodes, q nodes etc? does the nps include these
>aswell? Ive often seen depths displayed as X/Y is this the iterative deepening
>depth/max depth searched or something?

There's no standard really.

When it comes to the score, I always encourage people to use something like "1.4
for Black" instead of "-1.4". Although I'm sure everyone knows which engines X
use + for white when analyzing a game, but use + for side-to-move when playing
the game. :) I mean it's really obvious, isn't it? :)

For fail-highs and fail-lows there's the common "++" and "--", but there's also
engines which use something else. I think Gaviota uses smileys for this. :)

Sargon



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