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Subject: Re: Gandalf and Nimzo 8 performance were handicuped by the K6-2 500 MHz

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 15:11:07 03/05/01

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On March 05, 2001 at 17:44:45, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>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

Hi!

You are probably right about the programs but I guess it is at least one more
"computer-generation" before "ordinary" people buy duals. So far it is only
people like you and me that have half a room filled with computers entirely
filled with chessprograms and an old Pentium 200 with Word and Excel!

One idea is of course to choose P3 800 or up and use a dual P3 for the above
programs and a single P3 for all other programs.

Bertil



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