Author: Andrew Wagner
Date: 20:05:26 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 23:04:43, Andrew Wagner wrote: >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. I should also note that I'm failing high on the first move about 80-90% of the time, so my move ordering isn't too awful.
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