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Subject: Re: Question To The Hardware Experts

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 03:53:32 10/15/05

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On October 15, 2005 at 06:42:54, Steve B wrote:

>As some of you may know, there is a new dedicated chess computer that is very
>powerful and now generally considered to be the strongest dedicated computer
>ever released
>
>my guesstimate to Elo is at least 2600(with Fruit WCCC 05 locked and loaded)
>
>
>named the "Resurrection" it  runs on the Intel StrongArm Processor  at 203 Mhz
>with 32 MB memory
>i am interested to know what the approximate equivalent hardware would be  for
>some of the  devices used today to run Chess Programs

If you are in possession of the dedicated unit in question and since it uses
fruit, you could make some time to depth measurements on a few test positions,
then someone else (you?) can make the same test on their PC with the same
version of fruit. In this way, how many times faster fruit is on a PC can be
determined.

>
>obviously for the PC and then any other devices that run chess programs such as
>Palm's,Pocket PC'S ..etcetc
>
>i am interested and also being  asked to play matches against other devices with
>the Res and i dont want to agree to play against a device that will win merely
>because it is running on much faster hardware
>
>Out Of My League Regards
>Steve



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