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1 second is a very long time on a modern computer. And in the middlegame the time per move is around 2-3 seconds and 0.5 seconds in endgame. 1 second per move is the average time per move displayed by the LittleBlitzerGUI (for all moves in all games played by one engine).

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The LS-rankinglist (LightSpeed-rankinglist), now restarted with more than double thinking time (45''+500ms instead of 20''+250ms) Intel i7-2630QM (SSE42 support, Windows 7 64bit, 2 GHz Quadcore, FritzMark=20.2), 64 MB Hash, 1 core per engine (Hyperthreading off), no ponder, no endgame-bases, no resi...

The LS-rankinglist (LightSpeed-rankinglist), now with Gull 2 beta2. Intel i7-2630QM (SSE42 support, Windows 7 64bit, Quadcore, FritzMark=20.2), 64 MB Hash, 1 core per engine (Hyperthreading off), no ponder, no endgame-bases, no resign. 500 selected opening-positions (all 8 moves deep, from Frank Q.-...

The 10000 games test of the T3-setting was for the LS-rankinglist and did not include games against Houdini 2.0c default. The test of the settings (inclusive T3) against Houdini 2.0c default was a test in advance to find the best setting for the final testrun for the LightSpeed-rankinglist. Best - S...

The T3-setting played 10000 games (LS-rankinglist conditions, same opponents as Houdini 2.0c default) and scored 0.6% weaker than the default-engine. So it will not be in the LS-rankinglsit - who cares about a setting, which is not better than the default-engine? (-0.6% in 10000 games is inside erro...

The LS-rankinglist (LightSpeed-rankinglist), now with Bouquet 1.4. Intel i7-2630QM (SSE42 support, Windows 7 64bit, Quadcore, FritzMark=20.2), 64 MB Hash, 1 core per engine (Hyperthreading off), no ponder, no endgame-bases, no resign. 500 selected opening-positions (all 8 moves deep, from Frank Q.-d...

The LS-rankinglist (LightSpeed-rankinglist), now with Stockfish 120727Q (120727 was weaker!). +10 Elo to Stockfish 2.2.2. Stockfish 120622 deleted (2979 Elo (+5 Elo to Stockfish 2.2.2)) Intel i7-2630QM (SSE42 support, Windows 7 64bit, Quadcore, FritzMark=20.2), 64 MB Hash, 1 core per engine (Hyperth...

My own view is that such ultra-fast tests are useful for comparing upgrades of one engine to another (although the elo gain will be overstated a bit), but not so useful for comparing unrelated engines. All engines using the Ippo code or search algorithms seem to be extremely strong at such very fas...

Before this version of the LS-rankinglist, I had the TEB-rankinglist and a LS-rankinglist, which were the same except the thinking time. TEB had 60''+750ms. The results were the same (all differences were inside errorbar), so I decided the TEB-speed is to slow, it is better to have more games than l...

The LS-rankinglist (LightSpeed-rankinglist), now with Komodo 5. +52 Elo. Nice. But still no MP-version – not nice... Intel i7-2630QM (SSE42 support, Windows 7 64bit, Quadcore, FritzMark=20.2), 64 MB Hash, 1 core per engine (Hyperthreading off), no ponder, no endgame-bases, no resign. 500 selected op...