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Subject: Re: Ratio of extension

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 10:14:50 02/02/00

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On February 01, 2000 at 07:56:19, Jan Pernicka wrote:

>   Hi,
> I would like to know what's the ratio (approximately) n/m, where
> n = #nodes visited by exhaustive search (i.e. they were not chosen
>        by selective algorhitms)
> m = #nodes visited by selective search(i.e. others)
>  (ok - 1 node could be in both groups - the search depth to the horizon
>  could decrease by "real number")
>
> Nodes visited by quiescence search I include into the 2nd group (of course).
> How is it with your (or your favourite) chess program. I would expect
> it to be 3:1 but it's only a guess

It'll be over 1:1 if you count quiescence search in group 2.
You have at least one quiscent node for every leaf node, lots
of nodes will be in the nullmove search etc...

> And the other thing - what kinds of selective search are in common?
> (quiescence,check...).

quiescence, check, recapture, pawnpush, mate-threat, one-reply

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GCP



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