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Subject: Re: Move counting

Author: Quenton Fyfe

Date: 18:08:55 11/11/98

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Hi !

Just been trying this out with Crafty.  It all worked fine, until 7 ply, where
Crafty announces -1099065436 nodes.  Seems like it wrapped a variable somewhere.

Cheers!

Quenton Fyfe




On November 11, 1998 at 09:44:23, Andreas Stabel wrote:

>I have made a program that I've tested by counting nodes and then check
>against crafty. Here's what I've got:
>
>Ply| Number of nodes | Total # nodes | # Nodes / Prev. # Nodes
>---+-----------------+---------------+------------------------
>0  |             1   |           1   |
>1  |            20   |          21   |  20.000
>2  |           400   |         421   |  20.000
>3  |          8902   |        9323   |  22.255
>4  |        197281   |      206604   |  22.161
>5  |       4865609   |     5072213   |  24.663
>6  |     119060324   |   124132537   |  24.470
>7  |    3195901860   |  3320034397   |  26.843
>
>You could of course calculate more plys using crafty on a powerful
>machine with the command: perft <depth>
>Note that crafty always get one node less then me because I count the
>initial pos.
>
>Best regards
>Andreas Stabel



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