Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 09:01:36 01/18/00
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>>Dann, >> >>I put questionmarkes to the 2 million. Dann are the reaLLY having 2.0 million >>positions??? On your ftp site in the private section (CAP-members only section) >>there are only 950.000 unique positions. You said in another messaage on this >>board that you expect a CD from overseas. Does this mean you don't have 2.0 >>million yet and expect to have 2.0 million positions if all data is merged?? >Yes This is really great! [snip] >>I also saw in the CAP files a lot of positions where the nodecount is < 0. Is it >>a good idea to analyze these positions 1 ply deeper and save them in the >>database so eventually we don't have negative values in the primary base >>anymore....?? (Project "Negakiller") >Negative nodecount is more than 2^31 nodes. Some have even wrapped again to >positive (e.g. you will see 18 plies but only 100K nodes or something strange >like that). It is a function of the programs that count the nodes. Most use a >4 byte long to do it. > >>Michel Langeveld Ahh... ok I remembered the problem in the newsgroups, craftylist, etc. Thanks for the clear explaination of the questions! Regards, Michel Langeveld
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