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Subject: Re: perft results (how accurate is accurate enough ?)

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 00:03:22 09/24/04

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On September 23, 2004 at 19:48:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 23, 2004 at 17:44:25, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>
>>On September 23, 2004 at 16:58:33, Roman Hartmann wrote:
>>
>>>hello all,
>>>
>>>while testing my move generator (10x12 array, only legal moves) and comparing
>>>the perft result from Crafty and my own results I noticed that my results differ
>>>for some positions a bit. As the results start to differ only at some depth it's
>>>not that easy to track this bug. Although I'm quite certain that the problem is
>>>somehow related to EP-moves I wasn't able to solve this riddle yet.
>>>
>>>By searching the web I found some websites with perft results from other chess
>>>engines with numbers even more off than the results from my move generator.
>>>
>>>some results -total nodes- from my move generator (proper Results from Crafty):
>>>rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
>>>perft 4: 20603 ok
>>>perft 5: 5072212 ok
>>
>>perft 5: nodes: 4865609
>>
>>This is the starting position, right?
>>Your Crafty version must be broken.
>>
>>regards
>>Andy
>
>
>??
>
>That is actually the correct number...

I didn't understand what he meant with -total nodes-. I don't calculate perft
this way.
When I enter perft 5 in crafty I get 4865609, the same I get when I enter perft
5 in my engine.

regards
Andy



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