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Subject: Re: What is the average positions in one second speed?

Author: leonid

Date: 15:51:37 01/25/00

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On January 25, 2000 at 16:53:45, Dann Corbit wrote:

>NPS has almost no meaning for two different programs.
>
>Consider Fritz and MChess.  Two very different approaches (both of which are
>valid).
>
>A program can only be benchmarked against itself in NPS.  I think plies are a
>much better gague of performance, but even that is a very misleading label most
>of the time.

Agree with you 100%. Only sometime it is curious to know speed in nodes per
second to give you some general impression. Beside solving the mate containing
position (there you know exactly in what number of plies solution existe and
where time spent for solving it is 100% comparable) all other comparaison of the
basic speed for the chess logic is impossible.

Leonid.


>So it all boils down to "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."



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