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Subject: Re: How make Fritz execute brute force search?

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 18:44:06 07/26/00

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On July 26, 2000 at 21:20:33, leonid wrote:

>On July 26, 2000 at 21:03:27, Jason Williamson wrote:
>
>>On July 26, 2000 at 19:45:15, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>On July 26, 2000 at 18:29:36, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 26, 2000 at 18:22:47, leonid wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 26, 2000 at 17:26:01, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On July 26, 2000 at 16:59:35, leonid wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On July 26, 2000 at 13:40:32, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On July 26, 2000 at 09:18:41, leonid wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Hi!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>How ask Fritz execute brute force search? I have Fritz 6 but if it is possible
>>>>>>>>>for some other version (even better DOS version), please say me.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Recently I went to see Fritz nodes per second performance. Very impressive! Only
>>>>>>>>>maybe I am missing exact numbers. NPS tend to grow when search is done by brute
>>>>>>>>>force. This is why I try to find where Fritz numbers stays in real. But Fritz,
>>>>>>>>>in dispite of its performance, is not exactly open minded piece of software.
>>>>>>>>>Even its NPS I was able to see only through my Hiarcs 7.32 program.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>>>>>>>Leonid.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>My search is selective only because of null-move. I believe this is also the
>>>>>>>>case with Fritz.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>With null move on, my program searches 634k NPS. (BK, short searches)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On what hardware do you have 634k? I was very impressed with Fritz numbers only
>>>>>>>because they were between 220 and 320k on AMD 400Mhz. Your numbers are almost
>>>>>>>twice as fast.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Pentium III/800. On a K-6/400 I figure I'd get 350k NPS or so. And that's for BK
>>>>>>positions; if I did a 5 second run of WAC, I'd get 780k NPS or so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>If I am not missing there something, your numbers are better that the Fritz
>>>>>have. If you could someday check at what speed Fritz 6 goes on your hardware and
>>>>>send me the numbers (best with some concret position), it will be very nice. Or
>>>>>just put them here. If you numbers are so good, like I see them, you should be
>>>>>really proud to say them in public.
>>>>>
>>>>>Leonid.
>>>>
>>>>What are you talking about? Its more to a chess program than a high NPS! Even
>>>>when doing a brute force search. Perhaps the Fritz eval is more complex etc.
>>>>etc. The proof is in the the chess game it plays, not the NPS.
>>>>Torstein
>>>
>>>If you will see all the best programs you will find that biggest part of them
>>>have surprisingly close NPS, leaving aside few exceptions. When you will write
>>>your program as amateur (and ever more on C) there are very few chances that
>>>your NPS will come even close to those numbers. If your NPS is actually not only
>>>close but even better that the best monsters numbers, you have good chance to
>>>reach them all later.
>>>
>>>
>>>I was amazed by 650K on 800Mhz with a reason. Recently I found that numbers of
>>>NPS for this computers should be around 2 000 000 NPS for minimax. Only around
>>>25% of those numbers should be really reachable when all the advanced technics
>>>of search is used. It give around 400K for 800Mhz Pentium. Raaching 650K is more
>>>that simply good performance.
>>>
>>>Leonid.
>>
>>On my machine:
>>
>>Junior 6a roughly 250-300K NPS Rating 2650
>>Fritz 6a roughly 300-350K nps  Rating 2650
>>Crafty 17.x 180-200K nps Rating 2550-2600
>>Hiarcs 7.32 50-75K nps Rating 2600
>>Little Goliath 2000 300-500k nps Rating 2500-2550
>>Phalanx roughly 50k nps Rating 2500
>>
>>and so on.  Arg NPS I see is roughly 100-200k on my machine by the strong
>>amateurs and around 200K+ with the exception of Hiarcs.  Yet the difference in
>>speed isn't much between the top amateurs engines and top commercials engines,
>>so where does the strength lie?  In the evaluation functions.  Don't worry about
>>nps, it has about as much meaning as BOGOMips do in linux.
>>
>>Jason
>
>Thanks for numbers! But on what computer?
>
>Leonid.

Using one of my 2 Celeron 400s.  (Dual Celeron 400 system.)



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