Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 20:04:43 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 22:55:39, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >On June 15, 2004 at 19:28:36, Andrew Wagner wrote: > >>I've heard it said before that it's not good to compare node counts between >>engines, and that node counts aren't a good indication of strength. So, I've >>been staying away from that a lot. >> >>The other day, I was chatting with my good friend Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz. We >>see each other a lot on ICC and compare notes on our engines. We decided to play >>a fixed-depth game between our engines, to test eval strength. In the process of >>the game, he noticed that my node count was ridiculously higher than his. For >>example, in one position, where I was getting 277k nodes, he was getting like > >What kind of nodes, alpha-beta or q-search. See Bruce Moreland's discussion on >q-search explosion. > >Dan H. > > [snip] Alphabeta nodes. Currently about half ny total nodes are qnodes, which isn't bad.
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