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Subject: Re: SOS is amateur WMCC 2000 with 5.5 point out of 9

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 23:29:55 08/25/00

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On August 26, 2000 at 00:20:31, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>It beat Rebel and even Drew Fritz with a mere Pentium III 667 Mhz! I wonder
>what it would have been capable of if it had used a Pentium III 1000 Mhz?
>Probably it would have ended in number 2 and possibly ........????

The difference in speed is worth about 29 rating points, so probably not.
Remember, in past such events, single CPU systems have finished ahead the SMP
systems, so speed is not everything. The _quality_ of the search and the eval is
more important.



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