Author: John Wentworth
Date: 10:58:17 01/12/01
This may be a silly question but, in order to determine the strength of chess software , wouldn't it be more accurate to use slower hardware? It seems to me that when faster hardware is used, it just increases the tactical ability of the software and does not really show what the software "knows" or "understands", seems like it makes it harder to gage the knowledge level. If we were to take a program like Rebel, playing against a well known GM using a slow machine, if the program could still win, then I would be impressed. Other than that hardware has a lot to do with it, so let's get the old Cray Blitz software off the shelf running on a Cray Supercomputer, it would destroy every PC software running and be at least as competitive against the GM.
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