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Subject: Re: Symbolic: Progress report 2004.03.20

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 08:30:24 03/20/04

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On March 20, 2004 at 11:06:44, Andrew Wagner wrote:
>On March 20, 2004 at 10:02:04, Steven Edwards wrote:

>>2. The narration facility has been improved and now supports paragraph formation
>>with word wrap on both the real time output and the post search narrative file
>>output.  This is a minor feature, but it helps make the debugging process
>>easier.  I've included options to format positions in narrative for:
>>
>>-- Color using ANSI escape sequences (default)
>>-- Monochrome
>>-- CCC style FEN display strings
>
>Sounds to me like you're doing an awful lot of formatting work. On a project
>with such a radical foundation, don't you think making sure the general idea
>works first should be a priority?

As I wrote earlier, the effort is limited to only a few hours a week, se it's
not that much work.  Also, I expect to be spending a lot of time looking at the
narration output, so it's a whortwhile investment.

And I'm quite sure that the general idea is going to work.

>Keep the fight! I can't wait to see what you come up with!

>>An opening book candidate move is chosen.

>>I've selected the move e4.  No expectation is available.  The predicted
>>variation is: (e4).  I've used 0.09 processor seconds in making the selection.
>>There are twenty-one total nodes in the search tree.  There are twenty leaf
>>nodes in the search tree.  There is one interior node in the search tree.  My
>>selection rate is 233.333 nodes per second.  My average node processing time is
>>4.28571 milliseconds.
>
>No info on what it based its selection of e4 on? What is "expectation"? 233 nps?
>Do you think that's a typical result? Seems slow to me.

See the above that appears immediately prior to the result position diagram.

The expectation is a regular score, a score range, or a special score (e.g.,
MateIn5).

The node frequency is the node count divided by the processor usage.  I expect
the figure to decrease by a factor of ten or so as the project progresses.



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