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Subject: Drago

Author: Carmelo Calzerano

Date: 12:13:44 09/25/00

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>>>>
>>>>>In my moderate AMD K6-2 450Mhz and 50 MB hash it exceeds easily 1000knps in
>>>>>tactical positions and sometimes goes over 1300knps. Of course I know this means
>>>>>almost nothing to playing strength, but still it's unbelievable. I wonder can
>>>>>it be true nps value or has Michael B. his own node definition...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>If you do not care about playing strength then I think that I remember that
>>>>drago could see 14,000,000 nodes per second.
>>>
>>>Never heard about it. Is it chess program?
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>I read about it here and I understood that it a chess program of an italy.
>
>I mean of a programmer from italy(sorry if I do not spell the name of the
>country correctly)


Drago in an old 16 bit DOS chess program, written in assembler by Stefano Gemma.
You can find it (sources are available too) at:

http://www.linformatica.com/scacchi.html

Drago has a very high nps rate (not even close to 14M, anyway :)), and the new
32 bit version, Raffaela, is even faster; but they are relatively weak programs,
expecially because of the lack of a quiescence search.

Bye,
C.
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