Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 15:35:17 03/26/01
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Hi Christophe, a very interesting and good message, like that ! Now a little bit in my superb English :-)) 01. I believe you forget the important factor, that you can playing engine - engine matches on a dual system with ponder! An interesting player must not buy a second computer and an autoplayer. 02. Interesting is to make analyzes with two engines and full engine power under different GUIs. You can created more accurate results because an result with 2 engines in the same time is better as a result with only one engine ! 03. I make some experiments with dual systems and I believe the same engine with factor 1.7 - 1.8 is on a 1 GHz machine maybe 25 ELO stronger than on 1GHz single Pentium III. I think a dual system is at the moment the best alternative and people must only buy a second processor, a little bit more ram, Windows 2000 or Windows NT and a dual motherboard (at the moment is the best dual board in my opinion "ABit VP6"). For me not a question, a dual system is for chess the best system. For chess players in chess clubs which make analyzes with computer programs, for computer chess player (like engine-engine matches) and for my girlfriend (can looking Miss Marple when I sitting for my dual system). By the way, I think the problem are the tablebases. You wrote here a very good message and you speak about this problem. Engine-Engine games on one PC with ponder and 5-piece tablebases are not very interesting. I believe that programs which used the nalimov databases very agressive have here a problem. The engine is very slow and programs which used in engine-engine matches the nalimov tablebases not agressive have a better position. With 4-pieces I can`t see any problems with engine-engine matches on one PC with ponder. I wrote in German a review about Deep Fritz with a lot of information about dual systems. Gambit-Soft review page: http://www.gambitsoft.com/_reviews/reviews.htm My German is really better :-) Furthermore, I am very happy that the Deep Shredder vs. The World match have an interesting sponsor ... INTEL ... ! Here, I am very happy that Intel have interest on chess events. But it is clear ... Dual Boards are for chess very important and I play my CCE tourney with an Dual Pentium 733 MHz system. This system is now 10 months olt and the fastet new AMD processor is not better as on my "old" Dual Pentium III system if I use Crafty, Fritz, Junior, Shredder, Amy ... And ... Do you have see an engine-engine match on a dual system ? It`s fantastic to see current analyzes from 2 engines. I have more fun with my dual system. Come time come Deep Gambit Tiger :-)) Best Frank
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