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Subject: Re: To: KarinsDad...nps

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 19:10:59 05/04/99

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On May 04, 1999 at 22:01:57, Charles L. Williams wrote:

>On May 04, 1999 at 21:46:59, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On May 04, 1999 at 18:35:50, William H Rogers wrote:
>>
>>>I read your post and I don't think that I understand what's wrong.
>>>I am using a Pent 120 and QBasic (not quick basic) and set maximun depth to
>>>4 plys.
>>>From the starting position, white moves e2e4, my program calculated 45,614
>>>positions in 40.60156 seconds for a nps of 1140.
>>>Making a second move of f1c4, the program calculates 60,029 positions in
>>>54.60938 seconds for a nps of 1111.
>>>I increment my node counter with every move that the program calculates and
>>>evauluates. Maybe this is wrong, but I think that one of us is doing something
>>>not quite correct. Lets try to find out who, what or why.
>>>Bill
>>
>>It's always interesting to know how others count nodes.  fwiw, I count all calls
>>to makemove that result in a legal move.  Pseudo-legals aren't counted.
>>
>
>
>>Will
>
>I count any position that is evaluated, but not the moves leading to the
>evaluated position.
>
>
>Chuck

That's pretty much incorrect, if you are interested in comparing your nps to
others.  But you knew that, right?

I believe most people count a node as a node (or branch) in the tree.

Will




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