Author: Tina Long
Date: 21:35:10 11/25/01
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On November 25, 2001 at 21:19:57, Russell Reagan wrote: >Why are programs like Chessmaster and Hiarcs, which look at ~75k nps, still able >to play a decent game with a "high nps" program like Fritz which looks are >approximately 10 times more nps? Are Hiarcs and CM knowledge based programs >while Fritz's strength lies in it's speed? From my non-technical viewpoint you are approximatly correct. Chessmaster & Hiarcs are examining each node for ten times longer & therefore must be "thinking" about a lot more things at each node. I've also noticed that Hiarcs7.32 goes longer in its extensions than Fritz6. eg: Hiarcs will after say 2 minutes have looked at 8/31 while Fritz has looked at 10/29. I have no data, I just think I've noticed that. It sounds (from posts here)like Fritz7.001(MMX) is more knowledge based & therefore slower than Fritz6. Tina Long
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