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Subject: Re: [Q] What is Genius' speed?

Author: fca

Date: 08:39:27 08/10/98

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On August 10, 1998 at 03:33:52, blass uri wrote:

>
>On August 10, 1998 at 02:58:45, Kai Lübke wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm curious how fast Genius 5 (DOS) is compared to its competition.
>>
>>I always thought it was a slow knowledge-based program like MChess, but recently
>>I've heard it's much faster (more in the same class as Rebel or Crafty, i.e. 100
>>Knps at 200 MHz).
>>
>>Can someone please shed some light on this matter (as I'm preparing a tournament
>>between "teams" made of programs of similar search speed)?
>>I'm looking for a relative comparison ("xxx.xxx nps on K6-300" does not help
>>much).
>>
>>---
>>Shep
>I read Genius3 is a fast program.
>I read it could look at 100Knodes per second on pentium90Mh when it won >kasparov 1.5:.5

In London.  No, nowhere as fast as that...

It is maybe a little faster than Rebel 9, but much slower than Fritz 5 on P2
machines.  Much closer to R9 than to F5.

On AMD I do not know, and Rebel loves AMD.

One way of estimating nps is to see how fast hash tables fill up (many programs
give you data on this).  I believe all programs use comparable storage space per
hashed position.  OF COURSE there are other variables involved - which have the
effect of determining what % of examined nodes get hashed.

>I do not know about Genius5 but I believe there is not big difference between
>the programs.

Not in speed anyway.

>Uri

Kind regards

fca



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