Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 18:23:59 08/24/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 20:46:14, James Robertson wrote: >On August 24, 1999 at 20:28:19, KarinsDad wrote: > >>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 :) > >Also, remember that better move ordering makes fewer NPS. So Hiarcs could in >fact be searching deeper and have a lower NPS. My program's NPS has fallen from >(if I remember correctly) around 600k/second to about 100k/second and the 100/k >second plays _way_ better chess, bullet or otherwise. > >James ------------ I read quotes that stated that Hiarcs7.32 is considered by a far margin, the- strongest 1 min-Blitz player in the world!!! Regards,Terry
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