Answers.Body: <p>Right after starting the analysis of a position the engine has to prepare the hash table in the memory or check it if there is one allready. You can verify this by giving your engine a low ammount of RAM (e.g. 32 MB). You will notice that the nps accelleration will go up. However, this heavyly will decrease the strength of the engine.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I noticed that the nps (nodes per seconds) of different chess engines is very low at the start of the analysis and only after several seconds reaches is peak value. Does anybody have an explanation of this strange phenomenon?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: I wouldn't discard the possibility that some chess engine programmers mean to mislead their competitors.
  Maybe you'd want to post this same question in a specialized forum like talkchess.com
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Comments.Text: Sorry for the double comment. It seems in the forum I mentioned this topic has been treated more than once:
  http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=389052&t=37694
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Title: Why is engine's speed slow at the start?
ThreadText: # Why is engine's speed slow at the start?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-06-22)
  
  I noticed that the nps (nodes per seconds) of different chess engines is very low at the start of the analysis and only after several seconds reaches is peak value. Does anybody have an explanation of this strange phenomenon?
  
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  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I wouldn't discard the possibility that some chess engine programmers mean to mislead their competitors. Maybe you'd want to post this same question in a specialized forum like talkchess.com  
  > **username_1**: Sorry for the double comment. It seems in the forum I mentioned this topic has been treated more than once: http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=389052&t=37694  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2014-06-24. Score: 2
  
  Right after starting the analysis of a position the engine has to prepare the hash table in the memory or check it if there is one allready. You can verify this by giving your engine a low ammount of RAM (e.g. 32 MB). You will notice that the nps accelleration will go up. However, this heavyly will decrease the strength of the engine.
  
  
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