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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