Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 19:20:28 06/23/99
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On June 23, 1999 at 04:12:15, Jouni Uski wrote: >I saw these kind of peak NPS: > >Cilkchess 8 000 000 >Junior 1 500 000 >Ferret 1 000 000 >Fritz 1 000 000 >Nimzo 500 000 >Rebel 250 000 > >Interestingly Junior has overtaken Fritz in NPS. May be Fritz6 has more >knowledge added. > >regards Jouni People don't understand the relation between NPS and knowledge. If you add knowledge, meaning extra cycles, to an evaluation function, the program will probably process fewer nodes and search less deeply. If you spend more time ordering moves, it will process fewer nodes and search more deeply. In both cases you search fewer nodes, but in the first case you have more chess knowledge and in the second case you have the same knowledge but more actual speed. This seems extremely obvious to me but nobody ever comments on it, because people are overly concerned with attaining some sort of perverse gratification via number worship. I think that relating NPS to chess strength in computers is like relating body weight to physical strength in humans. There is some vague correlation but it is easy to imagine conditions where less is more. bruce
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