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Subject: Re: Crafty Depth/NPS ?

Author: Mikael Bäckman

Date: 09:37:40 08/10/05

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On August 10, 2005 at 09:55:04, James T. Walker wrote:

>I watched Crafty play one game last night.  The reported NPS was around 14-15
>Meg for a few moves whick I took notice of.  The depth reported was only around
>14/15 ply.  My XP2400 only hits around 900K NPS in these positions and reported
>a depth of about 12-13 ply.  Is Crafty really only getting 2 extra ply for at
>least a 15-16 times increase in NPS? Bob ?
>Jim


It's the branching factor. Assuming that the BF is 3 on average, you need 3
times the speed to reach a ply deeper in the same amount of time. Two extra
plies need 3*3 = 9 times faster hardware. Three plies need 27x and so on.


/Mikael




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