Author: David Dahlem
Date: 12:55:56 01/28/01
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On January 28, 2001 at 14:33:23, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Six Weeks ago I matched Nimzo 8 Vs Junior 6 at G\60 using an AMD Athlon 800 MHz >And the score after 75 games ended up with a slight advantage of 6.5 points for >Nimzo 8. Then one week after that match, I decided to match the same two >programs, but I used an AMD K6-2 500 MHz instead, and the score after 75 games >ended this time in favor of Junior 6 by almost the same margin as the previous >match. I realized that certain program benefit more than others as the speed of >the processor increases, but I wasn't satified yet and decided to test the same >two programs one more time with a slower processor this time. I asked my friend >John to test these two programs again with his old Pentium Celeron 333 MHz at >G\60 and after 9 games, Junior 6 was beating Nimzo 8 by W7 D2 L0 and, at that >moment I decided to stop the match. I can only conclude that Nimzo 8 benefit >more as the speed of the processor increase, therefore, Nimzo 8 will not have a >great SSDF rating by the middle of February, but if you have a P.C. with a >processors higher than 800 MHz Nimzo 8 is one of the few programs that benefit >the most by using the latest technology available. > >Pichard. I agree completely Jorge. Gandalf is the perfect example. It is supposed to be so hot on fast machines but on slow machines, it is not so hot !!! Dave
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