Author: Michael Watters
Date: 01:56:11 12/05/04
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On December 04, 2004 at 18:41:17, Dana Turnmire wrote: >I purchased a Designer 2100 Display (6Mhz) from a friend of mine and decided to >test a couple of simple positions which ANY PC chess program should solve in a >matter of seconds. In the first position the Fidelity computer couldn't find >the correct after over a half hour of thinking. In the second position I let it >think for 20 minutes before turning it off never finding the right move. Are >all dedicated units that weak? Dana Your Designer 2100 has an ELO of around 1835(European). Which is a quite strong club player here in England. How long would it take a club player to find and evaluate Nfxe4 in the second position? I tried the second position on a Kasparov President (1978 ELO) and it found Nfxe4 in 18.6 secs. I do not know to what extent evaluations have improved in 15 years but you are comparing a 6Mhz machine with todays PCs which are running say 500 times faster. Regards Mike
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