Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 09:05:10 11/08/99
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On November 08, 1999 at 09:47:46, James T. Walker wrote: >On November 08, 1999 at 04:57:37, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>On November 08, 1999 at 04:33:54, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>. >>. >>. >>> >>>NPS is just some number that is easy to collect. It is not an indicator of >>>tactical speed, much less chess strength. >>> >>>bruce >> >>But I think normally it's quite good indicator for tactical speed. E.g. Fritz >>and Goliath are tactically two best engines by far... >> >>Jouni > >Hello Jouni, >I think you will find that Hiarcs is also tactically very good and it's NPS is >about 10% of Fritz. I am also curious as to which programs solved the most >problems and which one did it in the fastest time. To me, that is more >important than any NPS measurement. Especially since programmers can't even >agree on how to count NPS in their programs. >Jim Walker More about NPS... Rebel has a slow and fast evaluation function. When I tune to do more fast evaluations (in stead off slow evaluations) Rebel's NPS may go with a factor of 2/3/4. Meaning to say NPS doesn't mean much. Ed
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