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Subject: Re: Who is the real NPS champion?

Author: Andrew Slough

Date: 12:26:47 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

Stephen Streater had a program a while back that ran on a 200Mhz StrongARM
(which is single issue, 32 bit), running on a 16Mhz memory bus that did over
2000kNPS. The ARM architecture is _really_ nice for chess.

Andy



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