Author: athlon2000
Date: 13:07:36 02/06/02
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On February 06, 2002 at 15:57:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... professor hyatt it means two engines that run in parallel to each other while a third engine observes the other two and decides which program has the better move so in truth it would only be 1/2 strength so iff i where to use two strong dual processors would a tripple brain be at full strength..
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