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Subject: Re: nodes after a six ply search.

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 10:22:32 08/12/03

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On August 12, 2003 at 12:03:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 12, 2003 at 06:23:26, macaroni wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>in an alpha-beta search, with hash tables, null moving, history heuristic,
>>killers, pvs search, quiescent search, and itterative deepening.
>>about how many nodes would one expect after a 6 ply search from the opening
>>position, I get 13,000, is this way to many? or about right.
>>Also, about how much extra performance would one expect from killers? I seem to
>>get a really marginal increase, what replacement scheme is good for killers?
>>thanks.
>
>
>I get 42,000 as a reference.  13,000 may well be reasonable depending on how
>you extend in the search.,

This seems odd.  I get only 1667 nodes with Crafty v19.3
(and only slightly more with mt=1):


Crafty v19.3 (2 cpus)

White(1): sd 6
search depth set to 6.
White(1): noise 1
noise level set to 1.
White(1): go
              clearing hash tables
              time surplus   0.00  time limit 22.50 (3:30)
              depth   time  score   variation (1)
starting thread 1
                1     0.00   0.25   1. e4
                1->   0.00   0.25   1. e4
                2     0.00   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                2->   0.00   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                3     0.00   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                3->   0.01   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                4     0.01   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                4->   0.01   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                5     0.01   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                5->   0.01   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                6     0.01   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
                6->   0.01   0.43   1. e4 e5 <HT>
              time=0.01  cpu=200%  mat=0  n=1667  fh=94%  nps=10k
              ext-> chk=1 cap=1 pp=0 1rep=1 mate=0
              predicted=0  nodes=1667  evals=853
              endgame tablebase-> probes done=0  successful=0
              SMP->  split=6  stop=0  data=2/32  cpu=0.02  elap=0.01

White(1): e4
              time used:   0.01
learning position, wtm=1  value=43
Black(1):




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