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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