Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: How important is a root search function ?

Author: Geoff

Date: 11:54:25 09/02/03

Go up one level in this thread


Hi

Thanks Scott & Richard for the replies, I forgot to mention in my post that I
had already implemented killer moves, that did help quite a bit as you say.

Out of interest here is my output for nodes and time for the start position.
What would the concensus be on these figures, good, bad or average ?
I am guessing my nps is good but my nodes visited is fairly bad compared to
typical engines.
I think I will concentrate next on trying to improve move ordering some more
rather than trying futility pruning and other risky sounding stuff. Looks like I
had better have a go at a root search function, but I am not that clear yet on
how to get a better move order at the root.

No hash Table
Ply  Eval   Time      Nodes   Principle Variation
 1:    48      0         26   d2d4
 2:     0      0         97   d2d4 d7d5
 3:    35      0        635   d2d4 d7d5 g1f3
 4:     0      0       2218   d2d4 d7d5 g1f3 b8c6
 5:    35      1      15040   d2d4 d7d5 g1f3 g8f6 b1c3
 6:    13      6      69361   e2e4 b8c6 d2d4 e7e5 g1f3 g8f6
 7:    38     32     352671   e2e4 e7e6 b1c3 d7d5 d2d4 g8f6 f1b5
 8:    18     65     687449   e2e4 e7e6 b1c3 b8c6 g1f3 d7d5 d2d4 g8f6
 9:    35    282    3064714   e2e4 e7e6 d2d4 b8c6 g1f3 d7d5 e4d5 e6d5 b1c3
10:    10    804  8,323,244   e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 g8f6 b1c3 b8c6 f1b5 f8b4 d2d3 b4c3
b2c3

8Meg Hash Table
Ply  Eval   Time      Nodes   Principle Variation
 1:    48      0         26   d2d4
 2:     0      0         97   d2d4 d7d5
 3:    35      0        632   d2d4 d7d5 g1f3
 4:     0      0       2080   d2d4 d7d5 g1f3 b8c6
 5:    35      1      11463   d2d4 d7d5 g1f3 b8c6 b1c3
 6:    13      4      44199   e2e4 b8c6 d2d4 d7d5 e4d5 d8d5
 7:    38     18     202541   e2e4 e7e6 d2d4 d7d5 b1c3 g8f6 f1b5
 8:    18     37     380917   e2e4 e7e6 d2d4 d7d5 b1c3 b8c6 g1f3 g8f6
 9:    35     90     918522   e2e4
10:    10    295  2,875,200   e2e4 e7e5 g1f3 g8f6 b1c3 b8c6 f1b5 f8b4 d2d3 b4c3
b2c3
            Regards Geoff



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.