Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:59:30 06/28/01
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On June 28, 2001 at 15:37:24, Joshua Lee wrote: >> >>That was indeed sad. Most programs of the day could not find those mates. >>Speeds of 100 nodes per second were pretty fast back then. Chess 4.x only >>did 2600 nodes per second as it won most of the 1970's events... > > >How effective were those 2600 nodes though? Pioneer took several Hours (3:45:00) >on a Nadareishvili Study , most programs solve this with millions of nodes >instead of 200 like Pioneer! > >How fast would Chess 4.x be on todays hardware? Can someone get a copy a test it >against Crafty or some other program? > >I mentioned Ostrich but i was confused i am really looking for information about >Chaos. Chaos played some extreemly impressive moves for instance: > >Chaos - Chess 4.0 > >[D] rq2k2r/3n1ppp/p2bpnb1/8/Np1N4/1B3PP1/PP2Q2P/R1BR2K1 w kq - 0 1 > >16.Nxe6!! Chaos took 587 seconds to find this move it was searching 4500 nodes >every 3 minutes or about 25 a second. Chaos played it for positional reasons. I beliee that programs of today can beat chaos with black inspite of the fact that 16.Nxe6 is a correct move. Uri
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