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Subject: Re: Who is the real NPS champion?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 01:20:56 11/08/99

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On November 08, 1999 at 04:05:45, Jouni Uski wrote:

>To get the definitive(?) answer is selected 20 random middle game position from
>ECM suite and run all 5 minutes. After that I read NPS and finally counted
>average for program. Test was done in 450 Mhz AMD with 52 MB hash.
>
>Fritz5.32      510kNPS
>Goliath2000a   610kNPS
>
>So Goliath has beaten Fritz in pure speed and is NPS champion!!
>
>Jouni

Most of those positions were probably tactical ones.  I think Goliath uses some
very lazy-eval in these types of positions, so NPS goes way up.  Try the test
using "positional" positions, and see if this is the same result.  It may still
be the same thing - who knows? :)

Jeremiah



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