The crafty-Rebel NPS Challenge

[mathmoi]

I'm curious, what was being test with this challenge and what were the conclusions?

http://www.rebel.nl/match2.htm

[Ovyron]

I don't know but related information can be found here:

http://www.rebel.nl/match.htm

[Ovyron]

Anyway, with today's hardware you could reproduce their results at much faster time controls (they only played one time handicap game, you could play plenty with, say, latest Crafty Vs. Pro Deo.)

[mathmoi]

Thanks it answered my question.

[bob]

I'm curious, what was being test with this challenge and what were the conclusions?

http://www.rebel.nl/match2.htm

The question was how significant is NPS? The answer was never found because the match was ended by Ed after one game. The question came during the deep thought/deep blue development.

[Uri Blass]

Anyway, with today's hardware you could reproduce their results at much faster time controls (they only played one time handicap game, you could play plenty with, say, latest Crafty Vs. Pro Deo.)

Prodeo has no chance against latest Crafty with 100:1 time handicap.
It may be more interesting to repeat Rybka against latest Crafty in the same conditions when Crafty get 100:1 time advantage.

Uri