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Subject: Re: Who can give the idea of speed of chess logic?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 02:23:24 11/11/99

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On November 10, 1999 at 22:52:34, leonid wrote:

>On November 10, 1999 at 21:14:09, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 1999 at 20:41:52, leonid wrote:
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>For some time I am trying to find at what speed usual logic goes in the chess
>>>game. Can somebody indicate the average time that game ask for solving the
>>>position in the middle game? To be more easy for me to undertand your number,
>>>please say it for the search done by frute force. No extensions. The most
>>>explicit will be the time of search executed 10 ply deep. If you could indicate
>>>some concrete position it will be appreciated.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Leonid.
>>
>>The time you ask for will be different for every position, and for every
>>program, especially since all of them do extensions.
>
>Real mess!

Yes. :)

> But how the raw speed of chess logic could be found?

In the way you're suggesting, I don't know that it can.

> By solving the
>mate containing positions I can not guess about the speed of my logic compared
>with some other. In mine, for solving the mate positions and for every other
>move, two distinct logics work in independent way. For mate solving logic speed
>was easely recognized.

I would worry more about playing strength rather than speed.  If you get 5 NPS
and depth 2 in a 40/2 game, but still beat everybody, is that not better than
getting 1,000,000 NPS and depth 15 but losing? :)

Jeremiah



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