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Subject: Re: Who is the real NPS champion?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 14:24:27 11/08/99

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On November 08, 1999 at 15:26:47, Andrew Slough 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
>
>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

Did it play or was it a test bed?  It's easy to get a man to the moon if you are
allowed to distribute him over an area several miles square.

bruce




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