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Subject: Re: Enrique's Cadaqués Tournament: Shredder beats Junior

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 09:21:40 01/15/01

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On January 15, 2001 at 12:13:01, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On January 15, 2001 at 11:45:22, Frederic Friedel wrote:
>
>>Round four of Enrique's Cadaqués Tournament is up. Shredder beat Junior 12:8.
>>
>><img src="http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/cad2001/r4a.gif">
>>
>>[I wonder if the table will appear here?!]
>>
>>All games with an interesting report by IM Hannu Wegner are to be found at
>>
>>http://www.computerschach.de/tourn/cad2001/cad01a.htm
>
>My previous test match between Nimzo 8 vs Junior 6.0 is consistent with what I
>see on this Cadaque's Tourney. When I matched Junior 6 vs Nimzo 8 using my AMD
>K6-2 500 MHZ at the end of  80 games Junior finished with a 6.5 lead at G/60,
>but when I switched to my AMD Athlon 800 MHz the reverse happened Nimzo 8 ended
>up with 8.5 more points than Junior 6.0. It is clear that Nimzo 8 performs
>better with computer higher than the standard SSDF K6-2 450 MHZ. I would not
>doubt that Nimzo 8 will end up being in 4 or 5 place in the upcoming SSDF using
>the old K6-2 450 Mhz, but once the SSDF are upgraded to at leat 800 Mhz Nimzo8
>will be one of the best three programs.
>

PS: Can somebody explain why certain programs benefit more than others using a
better computer. I also remember some post in reference to gandalf 4.32g
benefiting by the use a system higher than 800 MHz.

>Pichard.



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