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Subject: Re: Crafty Depth/NPS ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:51:46 08/10/05

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On August 10, 2005 at 09:55:04, James T. Walker wrote:

>I watched Crafty play one game last night.  The reported NPS was around 14-15
>Meg for a few moves whick I took notice of.  The depth reported was only around
>14/15 ply.  My XP2400 only hits around 900K NPS in these positions and reported
>a depth of about 12-13 ply.  Is Crafty really only getting 2 extra ply for at
>least a 15-16 times increase in NPS? Bob ?
>Jim

this is an exponential problem.  Also the version you are running is not the
version I am running, as search extensions are a bit different, etc.

A factor of 10x should be good for 2 plies, roughly.  In endgames, it might be
3-4 plies.  In some tactical positions, maybe only 1.  Just depends...

Also I am in the process of tuning the parallel search for this particular NUMA
box.  There are multiple tuning parameters inside Crafty.  smpmin, smpgroup,
etc.  And I am just getting those refined, which helps the depth significantly
at times...  Been running tuning test sessions all morning on this very thing...




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