Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 17:06:39 11/21/99
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On November 21, 1999 at 16:37:52, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Hi > >On November 21, 1999 at 16:04:39, Peter Kappler wrote: > >>On November 21, 1999 at 14:59:53, Bert van den Akker wrote: >> >>>From the start position I get a branche factor of about 14% >>> >>>This is in a 10 ply search from the start position. >>> >>>The branche factor is defined as: >>> >>>(total_number_of_moves_looked_at_in_a_node_before_cutoff / >>>total_number_of_generates_moves) * 100 >>> >> >>This is how I used to compute branching factor, too. I still think it's the >>best way to measure the quality of your move sorting. > >I've no "experience" in computing a branching factor, but this formula looks a >bit >strange to me. I would have expected an absolute number, not a percentage. > Oops. I overlooked this in the original post. I thought he was just computing the average number of moves tried per movelist, not a percentage. --Peter
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