Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:21:39 08/18/00
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On August 18, 2000 at 00:16:04, Peter Kappler wrote: >On August 17, 2000 at 21:59:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 17, 2000 at 17:22:18, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>We only know about Dr Hyatt computer since he annouces it 5 days ago. But why >>>Chessbase does not announces what hardwares they will be using and the same for >>>other with good possibility of winning such as Chess Tiger 12.9 and Shredder 5. >>>They need to bring the best hardware possible that can match Dr Hyatt Alpha >>>system, since Crafty has proven to be playing a la par with the very best >>>ptrograms using comparable hardwares. >>> >>>Pichard. >> >> >>I don't think our alpha is going to turn out to be very fast. I think we >>will be doing maybe 400K nodes per second. A shame, but there was little time >>to try to get a "real good alpha"... >> >>It will still 'play chess' of course. :) > > > >What kind of Alpha are you getting, and what would you have considered a "real >good alpha"?. > >--Peter The 21264A running at 667mhz or faster would be a "good alpha". The 21264 at 500 is an "OK alpha". IE we aren't going to be hurting at all, but we could run probably twice as fast.
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