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Subject: Re: WMCCC Results and Standings after Round 10

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:43:57 11/02/97

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On November 02, 1997 at 10:34:18, Mark Young wrote:

>Robert i have played Ferret and Crafty 100's of times on icc, fisc, and
>chess-net. Under my account names Klamath, Carokann, and phibs. I
>understand very well how strong ferret and crafty are. My point was many
>people tend to think that computer speed is everything. I have found as
>long as the computer is not more then 2x's slower i will take the better
>program and win with it more offen the lose.
>I only made this point because of some of the post i read saying that
>the alpha's should not be playing in the WMCCC. ( I am speaking more for
>standard time controls then blitz times. )

I misunderstood then.  I read it as "ferret is not strong, even on fast
hardware."  That I totally don't agree with.  Your PII/300 is almost
identical in performance to his Polywell alpha/533, based on benchmarks
Bruce did in Paris and benchmarks I have done here on the one PII/300 we
have in our department.  Given that, how have you fared against him?
That's
a pretty good indicator since hardware is equal...




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