Author: Mike Hood
Date: 03:08:19 11/26/01
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On November 26, 2001 at 00:35:10, Tina Long wrote: >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 And Fritz 5.32 is even faster than Fritz 6 in nps.
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