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Subject: Re: Fritzmarks, Ram Bandwidth & NPS

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 04:08:38 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 03:26:42, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 13, 2002 at 03:24:25, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>Looks to me as if it's just chessbase's 'speed rating' based off NPS values. Why
>>it doesn't only show the NPS I don't know, perhaps it's easier for some people
>>to compare via the Fritzmark. I prefer using the NPS values of course. There are
>>people here though interested in the 'Fritzmark' number so I figured I'd include
>>that as well as it only takes less than a second to type it. :P If you ever ask
>>Chessbase about it let me know what their response is.
>
>NPS gets killed by big hash tables.  You don't have to calculate the node,
>because it is already done in the hash table.
>
>I would like to see analysis of some tough position for 60 seconds instead, to
>get some idea of what is really going on.  I suspect that the difference will be
>a lot more dramatic with big tables and fast ram than the fritzmark shows.

Like I told before Fritz is very attached too ram . (at least Fritz5.32 and
Fritz6)
Try the same test with any version of Junior
And the diference will not be to big.
cause Junior is more attached to raw CPU speed.

Regards Marc



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