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Subject: Re: perft 11, or, making meaningless numbers even more meaningless...

Author: Andreas Stabel

Date: 00:34:02 01/16/04

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On January 16, 2004 at 00:24:00, Paul Byrne wrote:

>On January 15, 2004 at 04:30:59, Andreas Stabel wrote:
>
>>On January 12, 2004 at 22:07:26, Paul Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>Here are my results on the number of unique positions (note the en passant file
>>>was only set if there is a *legal* en passant capture on the next ply):
>>>
>>>1            20
>>>2           400
>>>3         5,362
>>>4        72,078
>>>5       822,518
>>>6     9,417,681
>>>7    96,400,068
>>>8   988,187,354
>>>
>>My program that calculates total number of unique positions encountered on all
>>plys to a certain depth gives:
>>1, 21, 421, 5783, 77796, 898812, 10281862, 106193643
>>
>>Which - if you subtract gives the numbers:
>>1, 20, 400, 5362, 72013, 821016, 9383050, 95911781
>>
>>As you can see theese numbers do not match yours from ply 4 and onwards.
>>So where is the error ?
>
>Some positions will occur at multiple depths in my list... the initial position
>at 4 ply after Nc3 Nc6 Nb1 Nb8, for example.
>
>-paul

Thanks for clearing that up.
I think I will change my program so I can check you numbers.

Regards
Andreas




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