Author: Álvaro Begué
Date: 10:27:19 08/30/04
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On August 30, 2004 at 12:24:54, Volker Böhm 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... > >Didn´t I´ve heard you saying that 10 games are not enough to draw a >statistically significant conclusion on the playing strength? > >Greetings Volker You are missing the logic of the argument here. Kurt said that the result somehow "proves [...] that the number of pos/sec can't be taken as a reliable value for the goodness of a chess program." Robert is just pointing out that the results are perfectly consistent with the hypothesis that NPS does matter. He is not deriving any truth from 10 games; he's just pointing out a flaw in Kurt's argument.
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