Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 12:24:29 12/21/00
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On December 21, 2000 at 15:04:05, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On December 21, 2000 at 13:45:38, Ed Panek wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> For fun i have been playing a match between two computers using rs232 >>both using Hiarcs7.32 >> >> One computer is an PIII 800 with 128 MBRAM >> the other is an old 486 DX-2 100 MHZ with 32 mb EDO >> >> the PIII generates about 70-100k Nodes per second >> the 486 does about 1-3k nodes per second >> >> The PIII is up on games 8.5-.5 but the interesting thing is that >>the 486 actually holds its own until about move 30-40. >> >> I also played a few manual games with genius 4.0 and it lasted even longer > >Genius really does extremely well on 486 hardware. Recently, I'd made some >changes to Comet and I just wanted to see if everything's still working ok. So I >made a short test-match of 4 blitz games (5min), Comet running on a K6/233 and >Genius-3 on a 486/50. I couldn't hardly believe to see that Genius did win this. > >Later, it took the K6/450 to give sufficient advantage to win against >Genius/486. > >Though my program may be weak in blitz games, I don't think that any other >opponent would be able to win a blitz match with such hardware disadvantage. > >Yes, the Lang programs had been something very special. > >Greetings, Uli > >> >>I wonder if 7-8 years from now we can expect the same difference ie. >>the computers running H732 will generate about 60X more nodes or will search >>4200-6000knodes per second. >> >> >>hmmm >> >>Ed Hi! There's two more Hiarcs7 (DOS) and Chesstiger that can compete on 486. Bertil
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