Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:02:13 08/26/00
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On August 26, 2000 at 07:49:01, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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 > >Nimzo 8 has been considered a professional chess program for a long time, When I >refer to amateur I am refering to programs such as Crafty, Zchess etc....... > >Pichard. Sos is not amatuer because chessbase sells it for money. I do not understand the reason that it was declared to be the amatuer world champion. It is a mistake The title is of insomniac. I responded to the question what will sos do with better hardware and not to the amatuer thread. I meant to say that it probably could not help it to finish in one of the top places assuming that Sos gets the same opponents of nimzo. Uri
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