Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 14:20:37 02/23/98
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On February 23, 1998 at 05:07:06, Jouni Uski wrote: > In all three standard test suites BT2630, BS2830 and LCT2 >Nimzo is the best ever in my PC. But may be it is (unintentional?) >tuned to solve them fast. In other test suites it is rather >a disappointment to me and it can't match Mchess 6/7 or Fritz4. >Specially in Modul endgame test I was really surprised with >bad result 26/35 - this is same result as Nimzo 2.2.1 got 4 years >ago... > But overall Nimzo is fine program and it's speed is impressive >with about 44000 nodes/s in my 486! I have two questions: >1) In LCT2 first endgame position: Nimzo crashes after ten seconds, > have others seen this? >2) There is no sound effects at all, why? Do I need sound card or? I can attest to tuning for problem suites. On my own program, I was able to tune it to solve 208 out of 300 on Win at Chess in 5 seconds each on a 25mhz 486 (on the same machine, Crafty solved about 210). Other programs which could easily beat my program could not do better on the problem suite. This is because for the purposes of a problem suite, speed, not knowledge, is the most important factor for standard combination tactical suites. Therefore, a program that is much faster will do well whereas a somewhat slower but smarter program will do disproportionately worse on the suite but be able to beat the faster but stupider program. --Stuart
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