Author: Michael G. Kramer
Date: 15:16:54 12/04/97
Those interested in chess software lack a reliable benchmark to compare
hardware setups.
Suggest that for the moment one engine which counts positions (or times
ply depth search) and one position be used to test all hardware. It may
be neccessary to establish a Dos standard and a Windows standard. (maybe
even a w95 standard0
As motherboard, win accel boards, specific memory types all profoundly
effect actual system speed, two k-6 200 systems with different mboards
etc could be remarkably different in performance.
using a stopwatch or perhaps a specific engine utility or ply depth and
studying the time to reach that ply depth or the positions achieved to
reach that time mark any hardware could be compared in a fair and
objective way.
Has anyone a specific suggestion as to an engine and a position and a
utility which has wide ease of use which can fulfill this task? I would
like to make some comparisons myself.
I think it would be good for us to think about a standard which we all
can accept as useful for the moment. I recommend use of an existing
chess engine as this will test specifically the type of computation
which interests us. A generic speed test may be somewhat deceptive but
then again I wonder. Is there a benchmark existing which is highly
valuable already in this matter?
It would be handy if one could read ("The Magma 8 generates 400,003
positions on the "Standard Chess Benchmark" )This could eventually
become a familiar and useful hardware test.
Michael G. Kramer
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