Author: blass uri
Date: 09:20:50 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 10:40:51, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On March 28, 2000 at 01:41:24, Tony Hedlund wrote: > >>On March 27, 2000 at 15:59:07, Jonathan Lee wrote: >> >>>Thanks for when. >>>Will there be the lastest hardware faster than 450MHZ PIII? (1 Gigahertz???) >>>Jonathan (30th message) >> >>No. We have just played with the 450 hardware for 6 months or so. We buy the >>computers with our own money. We can't afford to by new hardware every 6-12 >>month. We usually have a two year cykle. >> >>Tony > > >I believe that testing programs with Hardware of 450 Mhz PIII or AMD K6 II >450 Mhz is more than sufficient, since more than 70% of the people in the World >has computer with equal or lesser capacity. And this test is done to give an >idea of the playing strenght of the top playing programs such as Fritz 6a Junior >6a etc.. to the majority of the people, not just the few including myself who >can afford to have the latest computer and the best 3 programs available. I disagree. I want to know the ability of programs time control that is slower than tournament time control on my pIII450 because I use programs for correspondence games and in order to know it testing program on the latest computers is important because 120/40 on the latest hardware is similiar to 240/40 on pIII450. Uri
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