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Subject: Re: Why bother with NPS??

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 17:55:27 09/09/03

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On September 09, 2003 at 09:01:57, Arshad Syed wrote:

>I read in a post here that tweaking NPS a bit here and there wouldn't really
>matter since the node depth wouldn't increase with a marginal increase in NPS.
>The NPS would have to drastically increase in order to increase the depth by a
>level, at depths > 6.
>
>Please give me your opinion on this, since I don't want to be tweaking code
>unnecessarily, especially if it is not going to make a difference.
>
>Thanks,
>Arshad

why not?  I think it shouldn't be the primary focus of the programmer, but if
you get a 20% speedup that means your program will find any move 20% faster . .
.

anthony



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