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Subject: Re: utilization of computer resources by chess programs!!!

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 00:56:16 05/03/00

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On May 03, 2000 at 03:36:45, pavel wrote:

>Hi,
>    there have been a recent debate like "thingie" about crafty "does better
>utilization of computer" then fritz (or most program). In reply to that Bob
>posted that it is not true , however the utilization should be allmost the same.
>And i believed that too. But wasnt sure about it. I downloaded this program
>called "taskinfo", (shareware) and i did a test on crafty and fritz running on
>one cpu under fritz interface. As Bob said the utilization was more or less the
>same, it didnt differ more than 3 to 4% for both programs. It wasnt stable once
>it was 4% better on fritz the other time it was 3% better on crafty. But also
>this differances was also very rare. the most frequent differances was .50%. So
>you can see (Christophe) that crafty_doesnt_utilize_more
>_of_the_computer_resources ;0. To be sure that its the same in all circumstances
>i tried it under winboard (crafty and goliath) and also used other programs
>(exchess,comet,TCB,chessmaster7000). and they are more or less the same.
>just sharing info,
>thanks
>pavel

Thanks for testing that possibility Pavel. I had the same thoughts myself, but I
was too lazy to download the taskmanager myself. There's a link under Franks
link page if anyone is interested in aquiring the program.

Sincerely,
Mogens



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