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Subject: Re: Quiescent Explosion

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 03:07:15 06/27/03

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On June 26, 2003 at 22:45:17, macaroni wrote:

>I recently wrote a computer chess program, using alpha-beta, null moving, and
>quiescent search, in the main search function I use a history heuristic to sort
>moves, and that seems to be doing just fine, I can't say the same for my q
>search, the sorting procedure I use for that, is biggest capture, smallest
>attacker. However, when I do a ply 5 search, i get 23,000 standard search nodes,
>which seems acceptable to me, but I get 180,000 q nodes, which seems ridiculous.
>Is this as bad as I think it is? is it expectded? should I just make my Eval,
>MoveGen, MakePosition and UnmakePosition functions faster (if possible)? Also,
>my program manages 75,380 nodes per second, is this high? someone once told me
>that a high node/sec count is not always good.
>Thanks everyone

What position are you measuring this on, is it a whole game?

How do you count the qnodes?
Be careful not to count the frontier interior nodes as qnodes.

-S.



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