Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 14:44:45 03/05/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 17:36:17, Bertil Eklund wrote: >On March 05, 2001 at 17:28:17, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On March 05, 2001 at 16:55:43, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>Excellent job, guys. Many thanks for your tireless efforts. >>> >>>A couple of suggestions for the next list as you mentioned possible new entries >>>to be included. First, Shredder 5 of course. Second, Tiger Gambit 2.0. Although >>>it is clearly a brother of Rebel Tiger, it is also a different engine, and I >>>have no doubt that MANY are curious as to how it would do onthe SSDF testing >>>grounds. The last is Chessmaster 8000. John Merlino described how it can be >>>connected to be used with auto232, so that now I see no reason for it not to be >>>tested. >> >>Another suggestion would be to finally upgrade the processor being used to >>obtain the SSDF rating to a least an AMD Athlon or Duron with 800 MHz, since >>certain programs don't take advantage of a P.C. with a processor lower than 800 >>MHz like Gandalf and Nimzo 8 which both would ended up higher on the rating >>list. >> >>Pichard. >> >> Albert >>> >>>BTW, congratulations to Gandalf's and SOS's first and impressive beginnings on >>>the list as well! > >Hi! > >Of course it is time to upgrade, the last upgrade-decision was from april 1999. >I hope we can make a decision very soon, maybee Athlon 1200, 1300 or 1333?! > >What do you think? > >Bertil Hi Bertil, How about getting duals? Crafty, Deep Junior, Deep Fritz and Deep Shredder are already there, and also all these SMP programs that played in Paderborn. In less than a year from now all programs will have a "deep" version. I hate the noise of all these fans, 5 in my tower, but a dual makes sense to me. Enrique
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