Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:00:36 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 02:29:55, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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. Sos probably could win Junior if it had tablebases but in this case I am not sure if it could help it to get better ranking because in this case it could play against better players like chess tiger and Zchess instead of Xinix and Pacque Expert. Sos was lucky to get weaker opponents when nimzo got better opponents. Uri
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