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Subject: Re: perft(2) -> 420

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 14:13:29 02/22/06

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On February 22, 2006 at 17:02:48, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>Initial position rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - 0 1
>Depth	Perft value
>1	20
>2	400
>3	8902
>4	197281
>5	4865609
>
>So it is in disagreement for 3 with 9322.
>
>When I run my perft(up to 5), I get
>
>1 20
>2 420
>3 9322
>4 206603
>5 5072212
>
>So now I am more confused. What's right? Who's wrong?

Your numbers are fine!
2. 400 = 420 - 20
3. 8902 = 9322 - 420
4. 197281 = 206603 - 9322
and so on... so you're just generating cumulative totals.



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