Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 15:19:43 03/05/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 18:11:07, Bertil Eklund wrote: >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! :) Not even. For this I have a portable Dell with a P750 and 256 MB RAM, just in case I need it for chess. >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. This seems like a very fine compromise to me. But make it faster than 800, or else in a year from now people will complain again. Enrique >Bertil
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