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Subject: Re: Help with a little debug question

Author: Reinhard Scharnagl

Date: 00:17:20 10/18/04

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On October 17, 2004 at 22:58:35, William Bryant wrote:

>I am reaching for straws here, but, knowing the experience on this board,
>someone might have had this problem too.
>
>My move generator comes up short of perft.
>Specifically, from the starting position it is 20 move short on perft 3.
>
>I get 20 at ply 1
>I get 400 at ply 2 (20 responses)
>But I only get 8882 at ply 3 (reguardless of wether black starts first or white)
>
>I have checked all the special move, double pawn moves, ep moves, castling and
>can't seem to find
>the error.
>
>Any suggestions.
>
>William
>(BTW, this is a new engine for me, 64 bits wide for my new (hopefully) G5))

Try to have a more detailed statistic. You could specify the type of wrong
handled moves easier. Here is the way my Smirf creates results (P4 2.8 GHz):

FEN: rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1

  +-*--b--c--d--*--f--g--*-+ MS Vis. Studio C++ Vers. 13.10
8 |[r][n][b][q][k][b][n][r]|
7 |[p][p][p][p][p][p][p][p]| Perft Testseries
6 |   :::   :::   :::   :::|
5 |:::   :::   :::   :::   | (without caching)
4 |   :::   :::   :::   :::|
3 |:::   :::   :::   :::   | Test #:      00
2 |<P><P><P><P><P><P><P><P>|
1 |<R><N><B><Q><K><B><N><R>| Break Time 75.0 Sec.
=>+-*--b--c--d--*--f--g--*-+

Ply     Nodes    all (x)   (e.p.)    all (+)      (#)    Promot.    Castl. Sec.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
01         20          0        0          0        0          0         0    0
02        400          0        0          0        0          0         0    0
03       8902         34        0         12        0          0         0    0
04     197281       1576        0        469        8          0         0    0
05    4865609      82719      258      27351      347          0         0  0.2
06  119060324    2812008     5248     809099    10828          0         0  5.2
07 3195901860  108329926   319617   33103848   435767          0    883453  137
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

May be the (hopefully correct) numbers therein could be used for comparing
purposes.

Regards, Reinhard.



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