Author: Amir Ban
Date: 03:25:10 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 04:00:36, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I believe that after 53... Qxa4 it should be drawn. Junior mishandled it somewhere in time trouble. Amir
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