Author: stuart taylor
Date: 15:43:44 02/15/06
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On February 15, 2006 at 16:55:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On February 15, 2006 at 15:20:16, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>On February 15, 2006 at 15:11:30, Orlando Mouchel wrote: >> >>>>So, Vasik, please tell me: why would you would want to hide the node count of >>>>Rybka? >>> >>>Hi Anthony,(sorry for my bad english) >>> >>>You know, you are not the only one to have doubts about the honesty of Mr. >>>Rajlich. To be more precise, these doubts multiply more and more among the >>>programmers all around the world. More especially as I have just noticed that it >>>did not answer your question! Admittedly, this right belongs to him. >>> >>>While waiting, why not make free the very good "Zappa 2.0"? Using more tests, >>>one could then better appreciate his real power ! >>> >>>Best regards >>> >>>Orlando >> >> >> You have to back this up. >> >> 1) Please specify your doubts about the *honesty* of Mr Rajlich. >> >> 2) Which are the "programmers all around the world" - that share >> your doubts about the *honesty* of Mr Rajlich. >> If you can't back it up - I will consider your post as a troll and >> it should be removed. > >Actually it's not a troll. > >I talked to 30 programmers. All 30 except for 2 found it bad taste. So that's >28-2. Look a lawyer undoubtfully can defend anything, but there is a difference >between making marketing for your program and doing statements which only a >laywer can defend. > >Note i didn't talk with hyatt yet. > >But there is a weird difference between the average engine, Junior, Tiger, Rybka >and Hydra. > >Junior is creative in counting nodes. Futile evaluated nodes seem to get counted >as nodes. More nps = good. > >A big handicap of diep always was that despite running on 512 cpu's my nps was >always low. So sponsors then ask: "how many positions a second do you get?" > >Then i tell them the nps of diep, and you see their face change in a kind of >expression like: "did i give you such good hardware to get such a low nps?" > >Tigers nps works different again. As a professional programmer explained who is >using his debugger as an extension of his crucial physical part: "Tiger just >counts full evaluated nodes". Tiger in terms of nps is the fastest pc program. >Vasik will get wet dreams ever reaching that nps, as in bitboards it's simply >not possible to get such amounts of nps. > My question here is simply, what is "wet dreams"? (in your context) S.Taylor
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