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Subject: Re: Node speed

Author: Phil Dixon

Date: 15:01:28 08/16/99

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On August 16, 1999 at 09:06:59, Shep wrote:

>On August 16, 1999 at 07:54:28, Phil Dixon wrote:
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>>Halwick Jr,F (2430) - Dikmen,A (2207) [B12]
>>corr M.040 IECG, 1998
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>>1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nc3 e6 5.g4 Bg6 6.Nge2 c5 7.h4 h6 8.Be3 Qb6 9.f4 Nc6
>>10.f5 Bh7 11.Qd2 0-0-0 12.0-0-0 c4 13.Nf4 Qa6 14.fxe6 Nb4 15.exf7 Ne7 16.g5 Bxc2
>>17.Bh3+ Kb8 18.Rde1 Bh7 19.a3 Ng6 20.gxh6 gxh6 21.e6 Nxh4 22.Qf2 Be7 23.Qg3 Ka8
>>24.Kd1 Nd3 25.Nfxd5 Rxd5 26.Nxd5 Nxb2+ 27.Ke2 c3+ 28.Kf2 Nd3+ 29.Kg1 Qd6 30.Qxd6
>>Bxd6 31.Rf1 1-0
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>>While looking at this game with Fritz, I noticed the node speed hit 500k on move
>>9... and 1,500k on move 10... and 1,200k on move 11. Qd2.  Only very briefly,
>>1-2 seconds and at low ply levels.  I am wondering if this is a rather common
>>occurrence at low plys or if it has something to do with the position?
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>>I am running a 233 Mhz with 64 Megs of RAM.
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>This is due to a small bug.
>The Fritz GUI does not always reset the node counter quickly enough upon
>initialization of a new move.
>So if the previous search had, say, 10 M nodes searched, Fritz will often start
>the new search with
> ... 0:00 10325K
>in its information and consequently also calculate a wrong nps number.
>
>---
>Shep

I want to thank both of you gentlemen for commenting.  I am always learning.



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