Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:20:56 11/06/00
Go up one level in this thread
On November 06, 2000 at 08:54:36, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>On November 06, 2000 at 01:40:47, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 05, 2000 at 14:10:11, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>>chris, that was funny. but the first chance i get, i will upgrade to the new
>>>dual athlon motherboards, with the dual athlon mb--you should get a minimum of 3
>>>gig mhz, or sys.com is advertising a new 1.6 at their site (kyro), dual 1 gigs
>>>are all over the internet, i have (dual processor) diep, dj, and will get deep
>>>shredder as soon as it is available, i also have most of the single proc.
>>>programs. i have ordered rebel 11, the new millinium package, cm8000, and i have
>>>the powerbook, nalimov and ken thompsons tbs. i see that the 1.5 gig p4 is
>>>available on the internet. this should be available with a dual mb by jan. or
>>>feb. with a 3 gig dual setup with my dj---you should get about 1650 kns. like i
>>>said, when i read about all this hardware, i start sweating, and then i call my
>>>boss and tell him i need to work some overtime. i dont do drugs and i dont drink
>>>thunderbird, but i enjoy these programs, and overclocking my processor to see
>>>how it responds. my 1050 is boring because i want to see what gambit-tiger will
>>>do running on an 1800 mhz k7 or k8 with about 4 sticks of 128 megs of the new
>>>ddr ram. i am very aware that there is more to comp chess than just hardware,
>>>and i am very aware of the accomplishments of robert, chris, amar, shay, stefan,
>>>ed, etc., but i am having a blast.
>>
>>
>>
>>If your pleasure is on hardware, great. Personally the hardware evolution makes
>>me dizzy.
>>
>>I still test Tiger on 386sx-20MHz (if you know what it is :), and my dream is to
>>make Tiger the strongest program in the world on that hardware.
>>
>>I play "mine is bigger than yours" with software only. Knowing that my processor
>>is going to consume in just one day more Watts than some people in the third
>>world will use in their whole lifetime does not make me especially happy.
>>
>>So you can guess what I think about multiprocessor computers.
>>
>>Sorry to spoil the Gigahertz party. I'm not mother Theresa, but sometimes I feel
>>a little bit guilty. Which does nothing to solve the problem, I know, I know...
>
>Hi!
>
>Can your program win against Genius in blitz on a 386?
>
>It's better than Genius in blitz on todays computers but not with a large
>margin. It's of course clearly better on all longer time-controls.
>
>Bertil
I don't have enough games, but last time I tried (6 months ago), Genius5 and
Tiger 12.4 were apparently equal on this hardware.
That was game in 10 minutes. I played 20 games or so.
This is also why I still admire Richard's work. If hardware did not have
improved as significantly during the past 10 years, Richard's old programs would
still be on top!
I wonder if there is any program that could beat Genius5 in blitz on such
hardware.
I must add that there have been significant changes between Tiger 12.4 and Tiger
13.0, so maybe it's better now. But I have not tested.
Christophe
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.