feature request: add "number of visits per board position" to the batch analysis

[Trevoke]

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It would be nice to specify a number of visits to put on each board position, as a different option from "time to spend on each board position".

Currently I end up with some fairly uneven visits on board positions - some positions get 700 visits, some get a few thousands, some apparently get up to 20 or 30. I imagine that some of these numbers are due to how q5go does the analysis in the reverse, so it reconnects to prior-done work in the analysis, but I'd like to have a minimum number of visits guaranteed on all board positions.

[bernds]

Well, the idea is that you choose the time setting to guarantee a minimum number of visits for the position - with reverse analysis giving you a bonus sometimes. As far as I remember, the engine doesn't report a number of visits for the position, only per-move.

Are you asking for a minimum number for the top move? That could probably be arranged.

[Trevoke]

Oof a month ago for this discussion, so sorry.

Tools like katrain and lizzie are able to ask for a number of desired visits for a given board position (if I analyze the game and ask for 500 visits per move, every move in the game will have 500 visits, split between all the moves that katago looked at). I don't know how they do that, maybe they're doing more work client-side to tally up all the results?