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Subject: Re: now vs then

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 19:32:44 08/17/00

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On August 17, 2000 at 22:09:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 17, 2000 at 12:39:13, Chris Carson wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 2000 at 12:10:32, walter irvin wrote:
>>
>>>  i wonder how fritz6 on a 1 ghz would have stacked up vs hitec or cray blitz or
>>>for that matter deep blue ???????ok maybe deep blue is a stretch , but hitec or
>>>cray blitz ????
>>>
>>> also with the new computer world championship commimg up year 2000 .i wonder
>>>how the world champ from 84 or 85 would do in this years tourny ????? have
>>>things really got that much better?????
>>
>>Ok, I'll bite.  :)
>>
>>My opinion (take it with a grain of salt because we cannot match up
>>the programs).  :)
>>
>>1.  Fritz6 (PIII 1GHZ) vs Hitec (1989 hardware)        Fritz6 wins +200 ELO
>>2.  Fritz6 (PIII 1GHZ) vs Cray Blitz (1989 hardwar)    Fritz6 wins +200 ELO
>
>You did know that we were doing over 1M nodes per second in 1989?

The number of nodes is not important but the quality of the moves.
Hiarcs7.32 searches less nodes than Junior4.6 or Fritz3 but is a better program.

Uri



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