Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 12:03:27 05/10/00
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On May 10, 2000 at 07:51:32, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Hi > >>>Are they cheating somehow? Since ply depth is probably a strong >>>selling point. >>I do not think that customers are so stupid to decide on buying >>programs based on the ply depth. > >Never underestimate human stupidity. :) [source unknown to me] > >But given the fact that there were quite a lot of discussions about >NPS in CCC and that almost every program outputs the current NPS >in ICC or "in real" (which is a rather useless information if you're >not the author of the engine - my opinion), I think that NPS is even >the bigger seller. And the definition of NPS among the programmers >as as vague as 'ply', if not more. > >Regards, > -sargon Speaking as program hobbyist I believe that most of us buy for playing strength and GUI features ! Those are my priorities. For example Hiarcs 7.32 is a slow searcher, Try it out in bullet or Blitz it is still very very strong in these time control's Wayne
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