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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