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Subject: Re: now vs then

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:47:34 08/18/00

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On August 18, 2000 at 09:46:37, Chris Carson wrote:

>On August 18, 2000 at 09:27:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 17, 2000 at 22:32:44, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>
>>
>>Cray Blitz and crafty are _very_ similar now.  Do you think Crafty at 7M
>>nodes per second would get rolled over very badly by fritz at 1M?  I don't.
>
>Well, Blitz or Crafty on a Cray at 7M NPS would be a good matchup for Fritz6,
>Junior6, Shredder4, Hiarcs7.32, Chess Tiger ... on a PIII 1Ghz. :)
>
>However, I would give the nod to Fritz or DJ6 on a PIII 8x800 mhz.  Just
>my opinion, I would rather see the match-up, who knows how it would turn
>out and I would love to see Crafty at 7M NPS play all of the above.  You
>did a great job with Cray Blitz and you have done a great job with Crafty
>and so has Amir with Junior, the fritz team, shredder team, Ed with Rebel,
>Hiarcs team, christophe chess tiger, ...  :)  Bring_it_on for the next
>WCCC!  :)
>
>Best Regards,
>Chris Carson


I doubt I will ever compete in a WCCC event with a Cray, again.  They are
simply too hard to get time on.  Compaq may be willing to put up a 32 cpu
alpha, however.  That is a 32M node per second machine, easily...

If there is another WCCC event, of course.  I think it is very doubtful.



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