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Subject: Re: Christophe Theron, you mean 500 GHZ??? (NT)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:43:45 11/06/00

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On November 06, 2000 at 16:21:54, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On November 06, 2000 at 16:13:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 06, 2000 at 15:17:32, Jonathan Lee wrote:
>>
>>>On November 06, 2000 at 01:43:48, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 05, 2000 at 15:33:57, Jonathan Lee wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I understand Walter Irvin's point of view of contemporary greats versus
>>>>>the others point of view who are talking about influential greats.
>>>>>It would be safe to say that the 20th century influential greats (such as
>>>>>Richard Lang) are a SUBSET of the year 2000 contemporary greats listed _some_ by
>>>>>Walter Irvin.
>>>>>Grandmasters in gigahertz:  Just tell me how many gigahertz will it take to
>>>>>equal Kramnik.
>>>>>Jonathan (83rd message)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>500MHz will be enough. Not with current programs, but in several years software
>>>>improvements will compensate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Christophe
>>>500 GHZ
>>>Jonathan (86th message)
>>
>>I am not christophe but I am almost sure that he means 500 mhz and not 500GHZ.
>>I suspect that 500GHZ may be enough with the best programs of today.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>I meant 500MHz.
>
>500GHz is enough with programs of ten years ago.

I disgree here.

I do not think that 500GHz with programs of 1990 is enough.

I believe that 500GHz with programs of 1990 are going to lose at tournament time
control against the top programs of today on 1 GHz.

Uri



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