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Subject: Re: Quiescent search question to programmers

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 05:07:35 03/10/03

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>>>Comet is not one of the fast searchers so I thought that for you it should be
>>>not expensive.
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>>I don't see your point. Why should a certain percentage of extra-nodes be
>>"cheaper" for a slower searcher than for a faster searcher ?
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>The reason is simple.
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>I assume that fast searcher may get significantly less nodes per seconds when it
>does checks in the qsearch when it is not the case for slow searcher.


I am not sure; perhaps the opposite is true: particularly, an engine with fast
move generation will not pay too much for generating some extra nodes.

Uli

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