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Subject: Re: Eureka! Voila! Ooh La La! (Thanks Uri!)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:25:43 12/04/05

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On December 03, 2005 at 23:39:19, chandler yergin wrote:

>All expressions of great Joy.
>"Eureka cried the ancient Philosopher! The religious have an Epiphany!
>I just had another Beer.. and it came to me!
>I finally understand.. (I think) what you guys are doing, and want to do better.
>(If I don't I'm sure you'll tell me.
>;)
>You need a way to Test your Engines; and Tweak them and have irrefutable
>evidence of performance. In other words, a "Benchmark"; a Baseline for
>comparison purposes.
>Most of you use Test Positions! The problem there is, that every Engine will
>evaluate a poition differently.
>What is the one thing in Chess that will never change?
>What is the one Constant that will never change?
>
>The number of "possible" moves at various Ply Levels!
>Here they are:
>
> 0  1
>ply 1 20
>ply 2 400
>ply 3 8890
>ply 4 196812
>ply 5 4838258
>ply 6 118251225
>ply 7 3162798012
>ply 8 84029997363
>ply 9 2403434332264
>ply 10 68265214423776
>ply 11 2058141026024096

correct numbers can be productive for programmers to check bugs but
your numbers are not correct


A table of perft results for the start position:
1 20
2 400
3 8,902
4 197,281
5 4,865,609
6 119,060,324
7 3,195,901,860
8 84,998,978,956
9 2,439,530,234,167
10 69,352,859,712,417

Source

http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~peter/perft.htm

Note that I do not plan to respond to every post that I disagree with you and it
is a waste of time if you try to teach people in subjects that they know more
than you.

Uri



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