Author: Jesus de la Villa
Date: 16:20:22 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 13:34:41, Chris Carson wrote: >On June 22, 1999 at 10:58:42, paul bedrey wrote: > >>Hi Chris, thanks for your comments. I was thinking of the just completed Micro >>Championship. Some of the Hares were running on souped up hardware yet the >>tortoises more than held there own. It would be interesting to see what would >>have happened if it was reversed and the Tortoises had the superior hardware. >>Someone had said in a previous post that speed is only good if your pointed in >>the right direction. > >I see two things discussed here. S/W speed (evaluation) in Nodes Per >Second (NPS) and HW speed (faster HW). > >Given the same HW (like SSDF) you can compare (not perfect, but best >I know of) SW strength. A fast Searcher will get rating Xs and a >Slow Searcher will get Ys ratings. In my opinion, High NPS or Low >NPS is irrelevant (although mine is a fast searcher, high NPS), the >bottom line is how strong the program is. Just my opinion. > >If you put the Xs or the Ys program on a faster machine and play against >the other program on a slower machine, then either X or Y will see a >ratings increase due to the faster hardware. I am talking single >processor now. If a program is multi-processing, then adding more >processors may add significant strength. I am not an expert, this is >just my opinion. > >What has been your observation? > If you think procedural, yes, without doubt, you are rigth... If you think in terms of strategics it's wrong. Of course, 0Mhz means no tactics and no strategic. Kasparov don't think faster than others, he thinks better in long term planing, i'm sure his is not the best tactician, he supports hes startegics in short terms tactics, and he will not play much better thinking in tactics faster. IMO, why go faster, when you go in the wrong way... >Best Regards >Chris Carson
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