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

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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