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Subject: Re: Are some of you getting 5 Million moves per second?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 00:48:20 07/23/00

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On July 23, 2000 at 03:11:15, David Blackman wrote:

>On July 22, 2000 at 10:36:41, Larry Griffiths wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>
>>This ran on a Pentium III 550Mhz Xeon processor...
>
>>This divides out to about 1,974,757 moves per second...
>>
>>I read a thread in the last couple of months where some folks stated that their
>>programs were around 5 million moves per second.
>>
>>Do I still have a lot of tuning and optimization to do?
>>
>>Larry.
>
>I think the people getting 5 million nodes per second had about 8 cpus.
>
>Its unlikely that anyone gets 5 million nodes per second on a single Pentium III
>@ 550. If they did, it would have to be such a stripped down program, that it
>wouldn't actually play good chess. (Little or no eval, and poor move ordering.)

I'm pretty sure he was talking about just the move generator/make/unmake
functions, so it's even less of a full program than your description. :)



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