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Subject: Re: Rating estimate for Sargon III on a PC Pentium II 400

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 10:05:09 06/24/00

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On June 23, 2000 at 16:49:19, William H Rogers wrote:

>Sargon III was rated about 1980 on a 286 machine. So you might be albe to add
>about 200 points to its rating. This is only an estimate. It could be more or
>less +-100 points.
>Bill

I think it's a little more than that. The average 286 ran at 10 mhz, and this
PII is no less than 4 generations later (286 --> 386 --> 486 --> Pentium -->
Pentium II) and 40 times faster. All the same, I expect it must be around 200
points less than the very top programs.

                                      Albert Silver



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