Author: KarinsDad
Date: 17:28:19 08/24/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 19:18:15, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >Are you talking about Bullet against other progs or against humans? > >And by the way : I bet Fritz5 is strongest, cause it is a very fast searcher, >much faster than Hiarcs and Genius. I get confused on this fast searcher is better at speed chess issue. From my understanding, Fritz5 (.32) handles about 10 times as many nodes per second as Hiarcs7.32 (give or take on the same hardware). To me, this would mean that Fritz5 would get 1+ ply deeper, but well below 2 ply. So, Fritz5 would go down about 7+ ply on a fast system in 1 second and Hiarcs7 would go down about 6 ply in 1 second. Does this really correspond to a REAL significant ability considering that it's only one more ply? Doesn't 1 ply only correspond to about 50-70 elo (when you are talking so few ply) and couldn't that be recovered in a lot of cases due to the heavier evaluation in a slow searcher (i.e. there are other considerations than just material gain)? To me, it would seem like the fast searcher would not have THAT big of an advantage. KarinsDad :)
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