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Subject: Re: Who is the real NPS champion?

Author: Andrew Slough

Date: 14:56:48 11/08/99

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On November 08, 1999 at 17:24:27, Bruce Moreland wrote:

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

It actually played, but it wasn't very good. It was a bit like TECH in its
positional evaluation :-)  The posts from a few years ago are on dejanews. It
was fast because the whole board was stored in registers and one instruction on
the ARM could extract the type of piece + the colour and set condition flags
based on that. It was full alpha-beta with move ordering and hashing etc, but he
doesn't believe in null-move.

Andy



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