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Subject: Re: question for all chess programmers

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:57:11 02/06/02

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On February 06, 2002 at 13:47:30, Shep wrote:

>On February 06, 2002 at 11:15:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 06, 2002 at 10:09:58, athlon2000 wrote:
>>
>>>Is shredders triple brain option any good to use against single chess program
>>>users?
>>
>>I wouldn't think it is particularly good to use it _anywhere_.  Would you
>>prefer to have one engine thinking for X units of time, or three engines
>>thinking for X/3 units of time and then choose what appears to be best?
>
>Just for the record, it's more like X/2 since the actual triple brain engine
>does not seem to add much to the overall effort (more like some static
>calculations, no search etc.), judging by the nps numbers.

Does "triple brain" mean two programs + arbiter, or three programs?  If the
latter, it _must_ be 1/3 the speed since the programs are independent and
will run on the same processor...



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