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Subject: Re: Reducing node count

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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