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Subject: Re: The Barrier

Author: Ian Osgood

Date: 16:08:13 04/01/99

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On April 01, 1999 at 16:44:20, James Robertson wrote:

>On April 01, 1999 at 15:14:05, Ian Osgood wrote:
>
>>An account I run is SapphireII.  It is a high quality program, but runs at only
>>32 MHz.  It is routinely crushed by everything running on P166 or better except
>>for a few rank amateur programs.  (This is actually pretty good!  Kittinger
>>wrote some mean assembly.)  Search depth is everything in comp-comp games.
>>Faster processors prevail in the long run.
>
>I keep getting killed by SapphireII! And it is not just the search depth. What
>depth does SapphireII usally reach in a 5 0 game? I am getting 6-7, and still
>die almost every time....
>
>James

It reports depths of 5-6.



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