Author: Albert Silver
Date: 22:15:10 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
I ran tests comparing Fruit 2.1 running on my PPC, which is an Intel StrongArm
running at 624 MHz, and my Athlon 2 GHz. My results showed the PPC to run it
roughly 15-16 times slower than the Athlon. I was using 8 MB of hash tables
though.
In terms of SSDF ratings, where engines tend to outperform each other far more
as the speed increases than compared to humans, I estimated this at roughly a
200 point difference. A 3x speed difference would probably give it some extra 70
points less, so a guesstimate would be for it to be roughly 2600 SSDF, if one
expects the new Fruit to be somewhat stronger than Shredder 9's 2800+ SSDF
rating on an Athlon 1.2 GHz.
A lot of extrapolation for my taste, but it's probably not too far off.
Just bear in mind that an SSDF rating is not a FIDE or human rating. All the
same, I'd venture to say it is the first dedicated unit to be of GM strength.
Albert
>
>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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