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Subject: Re: How find raw speed of your game?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 10:03:19 10/22/99

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On October 21, 1999 at 23:56:48, leonid wrote:

>Please, say your suggestion! You have your basic logic and want to find its raw
>speed. How you will proceed?
>
>The speed of your logic when its go to solve the mate positions you already
>found. You only want to know how quickly your logic respond in all other
>situations.

What exactly do you mean by 'raw speed'?  Are you looking for
A) Nodes/Second (NPS)
B) the time it takes to get to depth 'x'
C) the time it takes to solve test positions?

If (A), I would say don't worry about it.  Among the commercial programs, some
have about 40k and some have 400k.

(B) is directly related to the Effective Branching Factor.  A lower branching
factor will give you better times.  However, it is also related to the number of
extensions done.  Doing many extensions will lower the 'depth', but can still
see the same information.

(C) may be interesting - test positions are nice, but the program's strength in
real games is more important.

Hope this helps a little, even though it doesn't really give an answer. :)

Jeremiah



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