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Subject: Re: CSTal-2 vs Gambit Tiger 1.0 (40/2hours)

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 22:03:14 11/05/00

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On November 05, 2000 at 08:17:57, James T. Walker wrote:

>On November 05, 2000 at 04:34:43, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On November 04, 2000 at 21:56:15, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>I played 6 games of CSTal-2 running on an Athlon Thunderbird 900 Mhz with 256
>>>Meg of ram vs Gambit Tiger 1.0 running on a PII-333 using 96 Meg hash tables.
>>>CSTal-2 also had access to all 3/4 and most 5 man tablebases.  Here is the PGN
>>>files for all 6 games.
>>>
>>>Jim
>>
>>4.5-1.5 is in the area I expected, knowing of the hardware disadvantage Gambit
>>Tiger got.
>>The Rebel 11 package will VERY soon be available for "normal" customers, I got
>>mine yesterday so I suppose Gambitsoft will have it Monday or Tuesday.
>
>Hello Harald,
>Actually I expected CSTal-2.03 to do better since it had the Athlon TB 900 which
>raised it's nps up over 26K/nps.  It only gets around 7K/nps on the PII-333.
>CSTal is supposed to come alive with faster hardware.  But remember this is only
>6 games and it could easily change if 6 more were played.  I was just hopeing
>for some real fireworks and not much exciting happened.  I rember CSTal-2 gave
>Hiarcs 7.32 a pretty good fight when CSTal-2 was running on my K6-3-450 so I
>expect if more games were played it would produce a better showing.  Anyway I
>don't have many options right now with my hardware ratio.  I need to upgrade my
>PII-333.  Maybe in a couple of weeks I will order another MB/CPU package.
>Jim


What I wanted to say is that Tal should win with this hardware advantage.
Tal didn't. That covers my own observations.




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