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Subject: Re: Who is the real NPS champion?

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 01:54:59 11/08/99

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On November 08, 1999 at 04:20:56, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>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

You are probably right... I have noticed, that in endgame positions Goliath's
NPS goes down to 150 - 200 kNPS.

Jouni






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