Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 08:17:21 07/27/98
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On July 27, 1998 at 09:35:42, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >I have had second thoughts about the kind of machine for this kind of match. I >understand the desire of all here to see Rebel running in the best machine >available, but I consider that a different but not less interesting approach >develops if Rebel 10 plays, on the contrary, in a kind of average, normally fast >machine as any you can get in any average home. ... but you want Rebel to play at GM strength, right? I feel that with the optimization for faster hardware (Rebel probably has been tuned to benefit from the huge speed difference between e.g. a P200MMX and a PII-400 or AMD K6-350) Rebel deserves that "extra punch". If Morovic has experience in playing other PC programs, the faster machine (my PII-400 is more than 2.5 times faster in some positions for Rebel than my P233MMX) might as much come as a surprise to him as the improved algorithms and Anti-GM feature. Especially in closed, anti-computer positions all programs need as much power as they can get against GM players. I feel that Rebel is walking on the edge of a hardware barrier in so far as it will play VERY MUCH better on the faster machine against all opponents. I think that its main weakness are certain kind of dynamical positions, and that's exactly were hardware helps to move attacking targets out of the horizon of the human player who's trying to beat it. > Intel 200 MMx seems to me to be >something of a representative of that average, something a bit more or a bit >less fast that what we all have in home. The PC99 specification by Microsoft, Intel and major PC companies demands a 300 Mhz CPU as *minimum*. So a P200MMX already is a little bit dusty ... > 400 Mhz or better astuill has certain >smell of experimental, laboratory, university campus kind of equipment. Not quite true if you consider that an AMD K6 300 (which runs obviously fine at 350 Mhz) costs about $150 and runs Rebel faster than a PII-400. > Is not >yet the standard. Nevertheless, I am not sure. I wait your vision, but I wait, >first of all, what Ed has to say. Until now, monday at 13:40 PM Chile hour I >have not received notices from him although I emailed him yesterday night. . Ed, >are you there? >Fernando I hope we can convince you ... If we played on ICC, this would benefit the audience and partially make up for the bad live coverage of the Anand match. Hey Ed, that's some reason to consider doing it, no? Moritz
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