Perft counts leaf nodes not generated moves.

[stockfish] / src / search.cpp

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index eb7666afd5142b85c624fabaeeba71b7dce04b77..1ae6b892c8d4d245b18f4fb9d730c799a8d01d4a 100644 (file)
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ void init_search() {
 }
 
 
-/// perft() is our utility to verify move generation. All the legal moves up to
-/// given depth are generated and counted and the sum returned.
+/// perft() is our utility to verify move generation. All the leaf nodes up to
+/// the given depth are generated and counted and the sum returned.
 
 int64_t perft(Position& pos, Depth depth) {