Author: Kevin Strickland
Date: 13:44:28 01/02/02
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On January 02, 2002 at 12:42:21, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 02, 2002 at 07:58:26, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >[snip] >>It would be nice if also Tiger, Rebel and Nimzo (and some other programs) join, >>I keep my fingers crossed. > >I would be very surprised if they do join, and I admire Hiarcs courage for >joining. If Hiarcs can win on a single CPU machine, it will be amazing. > >Look at the commercial entrants of Deep Fritz and Deep Junior -- any single CPU >professional program will have a 50% speed disadvantage. Chances are good they >will end up looking foolish if they join. That is why they stay away: >FEAR Remember in CCT3 that GNUChess finished well only on a PIII 800. There were dual computers that did in fact finish lower. Shredder won IPCCC events with only one processor as well. I would not call it a HUGE disadvantage to be a single processor.
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