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Subject: Re: To: KarinsDad...nps

Author: James Robertson

Date: 20:00:39 05/04/99

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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

This is also how I count nodes, and I think most people do this too. BTW what
does fwiw stand for?

James



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