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Subject: Re: Coparing two Identical Programs using Different Processors Speed !

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 14:09:27 01/28/01

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>I do not understand why do you work so hard in playing games.
>
>I think that you should find the number of nodes per seconf of nimzo8 and
>Junior6 on:
>
>1) Celeron 333
>2) K6-2 500
>3)Athlon 800
>
>For example
>If you find that nimzo's number are 250000,500000,1000000
>when Junior's numbers are 300000,500000,830000 then it will be an excellent
>proof that Nimzo earns more from the new processors.

That is very true and you just presented a good way to use NPS as an indicator.
BUT, it still won't tell you probably anything about playing strenght. I just
realized this with my engine. At fast time controls (this case represents a slow
computer) a version without SEE seemed to perform better than a version with
SEE. But with longer time control (same as fast computer) SEE performed better.
This can be result of better branching factor of version with SEE so it can
reach higher depths with less speedup than SEEless version. The same goes with
above programs. Junior might be actually stronger than Nimzo even that Nimzo's
NPS increased more. We still need games, many games...

Severi



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