Author: Will Singleton
Date: 10:03:27 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 10:35:48, Bas Hamstra wrote: >On February 13, 2000 at 03:35:50, Will Singleton wrote: > >>I am always interested in the nps kibitzed by programs playing on ICC. You can >>never be sure as to the accuracy, since one can fiddle with the numbers. But I >>was surprised the other day to see an amateur program getting in excess of 1 >>million nps on a 700mhz machine. Many amateur progs get around 100knps or less. >> >>Just wondering. Anybody get close to or more than 1000 nps per mhz? >> >>Will > >I get 400k on a Celeron 466 with mostly material/PieceSquare. With decent eval I >expect to do around 250k. > >BTW does everyone count nodes the same way? I for example don't doublecount D==0 >nodes. Therefore, before *every* qsearch I do a Nodes-- to eliminate the >doublecount. My NPS would go way up if I did't do this decrement. > > >Regards, >Bas Hamstra. Haven't heard from you lately, was wondering where you were with Tao. I assume that you increment nodes on each call to search, thereby necessitating the decrement before going to qsearch. I just count nodes in make_move, so I don't have to deal with that. Will
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