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Subject: Re: Hydra node speed from CSS forum

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 08:26:03 08/30/04

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On August 30, 2004 at 10:10:43, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On August 30, 2004 at 10:02:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 30, 2004 at 08:30:34, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>On August 30, 2004 at 08:12:52, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>Eine FPGA-Karte untersucht momentan ca. 3 Millionen Positionen/Sekunde. 16
>>>>Karten machen daher theoretisch 48 MPos/sec. (Donninger)
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>      If Hydra made 48 Mpos/sec this again proves (in comparison
>>>      with the 2 Mpos/sec on Quad-Opteron server with 4 CPU's of
>>>      Shredder) that the number of pos/sec can't be taken as a
>>>      reliable value for the goodness of a chess program. It's
>>>      of course simply impossible to compare apples and organes.
>>>      Kurt [http://www.utzingerk.com]
>>
>>
>>Don't forget that Hydra ripped Shredder's head off.  So the NPS _might_ be
>>significant here...
>
>      Don't forget that games 1 and 2 were losses out from the
>      book. In case of two draws here, the result would have been
>      a meaningless win of 4,5-3,5 for Hydra. Of course: if ...
>      Kurt


In order for a short match as this one to be significant, the Opening book
should be limitted to only 10 moves. But again nobody really know what the
outcome would have been if the match was extended to 20 games.

Jorge



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