Author: Chris Carson
Date: 05:13:37 06/23/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 19:20:22, Jesus de la Villa wrote: >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 Oh, I see your point. Think better not faster. :) However, consider if you are thinking better, faster should only help you get to the solution quicker. Faster HW should improve the performance of a "Better Thinker". What do you think? :) Best Regards, Chris Carson
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