Author: James
Date: 14:37:18 12/01/00
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On December 01, 2000 at 16:20:46, William Penn wrote: >On December 01, 2000 at 13:56:44, James wrote: > >>Pick any position and search through ply 12, setting all things in both programs >>as equal as possible, using default personality,, retry using mas selectivity. >>for each program. The results seen so far show that 8k takes 1.8 to 2.2 times >>as long, though for shorter searches they are closer. > >I came to the same conclusion at first, but I was using a very blocked/closed >position for my tests. Try an open position, perhaps with both of the queens >running around on the chessboard somewhat freely. I now believe CM8000 is faster >than prior versions, in general, but it can vary with the type of position. >WP The difficulity found is not so much closed positions, but rather the amount of material on the board, and the number of possible moves. Oddly cm6k was endgame faster than 55 with little material left, the same may be true of 8k, have not checked it yet
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