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Subject: Re: Why bother with NPS??

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 13:03:00 09/09/03

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On September 09, 2003 at 11:06:45, Andrew Dados wrote:

[snip]

>Suppose your NPS increases by 10%. Now when your time management is weak and
>flat, that doesn't mean much, you will maybe find 1-2 new bestmoves in a game,
>mabe none.
>
>But in 2 hours/game it means 12 minutes 'more'. So if your program can spot
>those interesting places where something happens and extend time there, you can
>use those 12 extra minutes for searching 2-3 crucial positions longer by 4-6
>minutes each...

Which basically means that you shouldn't spend too much time on tweaking your
NPS (which could very well be the wrong tweaking after your next major change in
the engine) but spend the time in good time management. :)

Sargon



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