Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 23:01:29 06/01/00
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On June 02, 2000 at 01:44:29, Pete Galati wrote: >On June 02, 2000 at 00:58:00, blass uri wrote: > >>On June 02, 2000 at 00:18:23, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On June 02, 2000 at 00:06:40, Rick Luce wrote: >>> >>>>Junior 6 is slated to participate in the Dortmund tournament in July. How well >>>>do you think it will do? My guess is that Junior will fare poorly against such >>>>a strong field and could easily finish last. >>>> >>>>By my calculation, Fritz performed at about 2590 level at the Dutch >>>>Championship, if you discount the two games which were essentially forfeit wins. >>>> If Junior performs at a similar level, it could be in trouble. The competition >>>>at Dortmund will be much stronger including the likes of Khalifman, Anand, >>>>Huebner, Leko etc. >>>> >>>>Also, has there been any indication that any of the GMs will refuse to play >>>>Junior? >>>> >>>>-Rick >>> >>>Do you have a link for a site with info about the tournament? Which Junior? >>>What hrdware will it run on. My unqualified opinion, not knowing any answers to >>>those questions anyhow, is that Junior will do better than Fritz did. Just a >>>gut feeling. >>> >>>Pete >> >>I remember that Junior will use 8 processors so it will use better hardware than >>the hardware of Fritz. >> >>Uri > >Thanks, yes, I found this at the Chessbase site; "in the Super-GM tournament it >will have an eight-processor system". So Junior should do very well. > >Pete Don't panic here. 8 cpus is not twice as fast as 4 cpus, in the world of SMP searching.
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