Author: Charles L. Williams
Date: 20:08:37 05/04/99
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On May 04, 1999 at 22:10:59, Will Singleton wrote: >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 I didn't know that, but it explains a few things. I'm a relative newcomer to this site, so I would have missed any discussions (if any) about counting nodes. This should improve my count considerably. :) Chuck
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