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Subject: Re: SSDF buys new monstercomputers for testing!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:59:48 04/01/01

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On April 01, 2001 at 11:52:00, John Dahlem wrote:

>On April 01, 2001 at 11:48:39, Hansjoerg wrote:
>
>>On April 01, 2001 at 07:30:44, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>Will the tests start before 1. April 2002 ?
>>
>>Greetings
>>Hansjoerg
>>
>>>On April 01, 2001 at 06:48:40, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 01, 2001 at 01:08:21, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>At the CeBit 2001 in Hannover the fastest computer in fact was a danish one.
>>>>>The processor was cooled down to about   - 12 celcius and was running 2
>>>>>Gigahertz.
>>>>>The SSDF has now decided that this VERY fast computer is the new test-machine.
>>>>>We will bye 20 machines very soon, and start testing our programs on this
>>>>>monster.
>>>>>
>>>>>Venlig hilsen
>>>>>Hans Chrisian Lykke (SSDF)
>>>>
>>>>If this is the case you will see a very different result for some programs that
>>>>are not too quick but great in chess Knowledge and corresponcence chess such as:
>>>>Rebel Century, Nimzo 8 and Hiarcs, probably an increase of about 50 rating
>>>>points from their previous rating using SLOW AMD 450 MHz.
>>>>
>>>>Pichard
>>>
>>>Wrong
>>>I do not think that hiarcs,Rebel Century or Nimzo8 have more knowledge than Deep
>>>Fritz.
>
>From the games I've seen, Hiarcs and Rebel definetely USE their knowledge
>better, then.

I do not know which games you see but I think that it is important to comapare
the same hardware at different time control and not different hardwares.

The reason is simple.
I know that hiarcs earns more speed from the fast pentiums.

Uri



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