Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 04:07:38 06/18/05
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On June 18, 2005 at 06:07:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >>I mean you can find exceptions sure, but that doesn't really do much dispute the >>general assertation that speed helps. > >That's on the one hand. On the other hand, in none of the recent WCCC contests >has the machine with the most MIPS come off the winner. >(Look at the Cilkchess, Zugzwang, P.Conners, etc. entries). MIPS or effective NPS? Surely the program must be able to take advantage of the hardware. >So just throwing a billion-gazillion horsepower at it won't make it a winner. Up to a point you are right, but I think that if you start throwing Hydra speeds at a resonable amateur engine it would suddenly present a serious challenge to even the best. A couple of hundred elo points can actually be achieved through pure hardware, and the differences seem not bigger than that. E.g. Crafty appears to be up there if you "just" give it quad odds. -S.
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