Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:49:25 02/11/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 19:48:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >You can't tell how strong a program is by counting how many nodes it examines. >Turn off NULL move and it will search more nodes with less effect, for instance. > Remove all positional checking and it will search even more nodes. By a >judicious removal of tests, you could probably double the node counts and halve >the playing strength. > >The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Play a 500 game match between two >versions and tell us how it turns out. Use separate machines, and turn >pondering on. While this is all correct, it seems to have very little to do with the original post. -Tom
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