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Subject: Re: Nimzo 8 using a PIII 933 MHz is a tough opponent to beat !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 21:41:55 02/21/01

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On February 21, 2001 at 23:37:46, jonas cohonas wrote:

>>>>
>>>>With Deep Shredder and Deep SOS out of its way Nimzo 8 only have a real tough
>>>>Opponent left Deep Fritz, But since Nimzo 8 behave differently when using a
>>>>Processor higher than 800 MHz and it was proven in the Cadaque's Tourney and in
>>>>my private testing of several games using my AMD Athlon 800 MHz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Nothing like that has been ever proved, except in your imagination.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>>
>>>
>>Yes, why would Nimzo "behave differently" just because you took it from a 600
>>(as an example) to an 800 Mhz cpu? Preposterous is a relevant word here, I
>>believe.
>>
>>Chuck
>>
>It is a well known fact that a program like Gandalf_432* plays differently on a
>high powered cpu than it does on a 500mhz
>So why should it be impossible for nimzo 8??
>In my testing period of Gandalf_432f-h i have gone from a 500mhz amd k6-2
>to a 900 mhz T-bird to a 1.2ghz T-bird, and now i just clocked my 1.2 to 1.3ghz
>in that period of time i have watched Gandalf change style (to the better) each
>time i did a cpu upgrade. For example it's almost as good at blitz now as  Fritz
>6 at FICS it has a 50% score against a Deep Fritz account running on a dual 1ghz
>Pentium3!
>My point is that if this is possible for Gandalf then why not for Nimzo8???
>
>Regards
>Jonas

Gandalf earns more nodes from fast hardware.

My experience is that Gandalf is more than twice faster on PIII800 than pIII450
when other programs like Junior and Fritz are not.

The question is if the situation with Nimzo is similiar.
There may be also another factor and maybe with the same number of nodes it
searches in a different way in fast hardware so I think that the best test is
simply to compare the result in test suites.

I suggest the follwing test

Give Nimzo8 a test suite that it can solve all of the positions but need some
time for it and calculate the sum of the times of the solutions.

Do the test on different computers and compare the results.

Do the same for other programs and you can find which program earns more from
fast hardware.

Uri



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