Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:26:49 01/12/01
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On January 12, 2001 at 13:58:17, John Wentworth wrote: >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. I am not sure about it and the only way to know is to test Cray blitz in games. Uri
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