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Subject: I'm convinced Hardware plays limited role in Rybka's strength

Author: Charles Wane

Date: 18:55:05 02/27/06


I just got finished playing a four game match at game/30 min between Hiarcs 10
and Rykba 13d, Hiarcs had an Athlon64 3200 with 128mb hash, against Rykba
running on a Pent II 450 with 128mb hash. The score was 2-2 !!  Yesterday I
played about 14 games between rykba running on the same 450 against Deep fritz 8
on the Athlon64 and rykba won the majority of the games!! Iv'e never seen a
program with such inferior hardware play so strong. I actually rated rybka on
the 450 on chessmaster 10th but letting rybka play the various personalities it
ended up with a rating of 3055!! And lost only one game , running all on a mere
Pent II 450.  I guess Rybka's case the chess knowledge means much more then the
speed of the program? I don't know cause I'm not a computer chess expert, but
all this seems bizarre.



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