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Subject: Re: Benchmarks for Athlon 600 and Athlon 1200 are wanted

Author: Victor Zakharov

Date: 00:41:09 03/28/01

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On March 27, 2001 at 21:55:10, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On March 27, 2001 at 21:23:05, enrico carrisco wrote:
>
>>> ... snip ...
>>>The real problem here is that Christophe tries to defend the statement
>>>that duals are not worth buying, which is essential the same statement as
>>>saying that buying a faster single cpu is not worth buying!
>>>
>>
>>I don't think that is what Christophe was saying at all - he was just pointing
>>out what someone choosing to buy such a system for ICS play can expect.  If
>>their only purpose is to attempt to crush everyone on the chess servers - good
>>luck & they are wasting their money.
>>
>>-elc.
>
>
>Exactly. Thanks.

There is another idea here too. Christophe considers that implementing support
of multiprocessing into search algorithm is not so essential for chess programs
as a lot of people could think. May be it is better to spend this time for chess
algorithms and get these ELO-points in another way. And I am agree with this.

Victor







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