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Subject: Re: How long to do 10 full plys? (Vincent)

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 03:53:37 02/25/99

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On February 24, 1999 at 21:39:53, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>On February 24, 1999 at 18:41:24, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On February 24, 1999 at 17:48:23, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>>
>>>Greetings CCC Chess Programmers!
>>>
>>>How long does it take your chess programs to go 10 full plys
>>>from whites opening move of E2-E4?
>>
>>few seconds, depending upon selectivity it can take up to 1 minute.
>>
>Hi Vincent,
>
>What do you mean by selectivity?  My program ran for 22 minutes
>(Using a hash table and alpha-beta pruning with a killer heuristic).
>I have used the CM6000 auto-analysis with 10 seconds per move and have
>seen it go 10-14 plys deep at times.  It sounds like your program is
>also very fast.  Do you mean that you go a few full plys and then
>do secondary searches?
>
>It sounds like I would have to improve the speed of my program by
>100 to 1000 times to catch up with you fellows.
>
>Larry   :-)

I get 20k nodes a second at a PII-450.

But about getting deeply.
a) improve move ordering
b) use nullmove

especially a is important when using b



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