Author: jonas cohonas
Date: 23:48:27 01/28/01
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On January 29, 2001 at 01:20:09, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 29, 2001 at 01:06:11, jonas cohonas wrote: > >>Goliath light would top all rating lists, but it dont!! >>Gandalf is the prog that seems to benefit most IMO from >>higher processor speed, and as we all know Gandalf does >>not have the highest node count. When i ran Gandalf on my >>old amd 500mhz k6-2 against fritz 6 and junior6 it would >>lose typically with a margain of 4-6 points in a 20 game >>match, but on my new Athlon T-bird 1.2 ghz it wins by 2-3 points >>in 40/120 games!! i think this goes to show that node speed >>is only part of a programs playing strength. > >I did not claim that more nodes per second decides about playing strength. > >I only claimed that increase in % in nodes per seconds decide about playing >strength. > >I believe that gandalf is more optimized for the new processors than for the old >ones. > >I guess that you may get the following numbers: > >K6-2 500 mhz > >Gandalf 50 kn/s Junior 300 kn/s > >T- bird 1.2 > >Gandalf 200 kn/s Junior 750 kn/s > >If this is the case it means that Gandalf is 4 times faster from the T- bird 1.2 >when Junior is only 2.5 times faster so Gandalf earns more from the new >processor and the fact that Junior searches more nodes per second is not >relevant. > >Uri Infact Gandalf's node count on 500 mhz is on the money with 50 kn/s jr6 300 Kn/s but on 1.2 ghz it is running at 400-500 Kn/s!! and junior 6 1000-1100 Kn/s So i get your point now :-) The increase of Gandalf(with more knowledge) is greater(compared to the 500mhz) than JR6 on faster hardware interesting. It goes from a 6th to almost 50% of jr6 search abilities. Regards Jonas
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