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Subject: Re: Could someone explain this?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:56:31 08/16/01

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On August 16, 2001 at 03:16:59, Terje Vagle wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>When I run Fritz 6 or Junior 6 in infinite mode over night, the NPS drop from
>approx. 600KNS from when I start it to approx 75KNS when it has been running for
>about 8-10 hours. The clock also starts to blink.
>
>BUT, when I run Fritz 5.32 in the same conditions, it continues the analysis
>with the same KN/s even after several days!
>
>WHY?

possible reasons:
1)the position is an endgame position and Fritz6 or Junior6 get a lot of
tablebases hits

2)there is a bug in the NPS and Fritz6 does not give you the correct number
I have not Fritz6 but I know that for many engines you can see negative number
of nodes if you give the engine enough time and even if the variable of the
number of nodes cannot get negative values you are not going to see the right
number after enough time if this numbe is a 32 bit number and not a 64 bit
number.

I did not see problem 2 with Deep Fritz but I found another problem and after
more than 99 or 100 hours of analysis the engine or the interface shows no
information.

Uri



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