Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:00:23 05/30/01
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On May 30, 2001 at 15:31:04, O. Veli wrote:
>On May 29, 2001 at 19:38:37, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On May 29, 2001 at 14:19:42, Ian Osgood wrote:
>>
>>>Sapphire II (dedicated 32 MHz H8, 118KB hash, ~4500 nps)
>>>Chess Tiger (PalmIIIe overclocked to 28 MHz, 48K hash, MSpeed=300/450/570 nps)
>>
>>Well that does not look good for Tiger. I guess the H8 is much faster than the
>>DragonBall. Looking at the NPS figures, it looks like the Sapphire is 10 times
>>faster. I guess its program does less things in each position (less
>>evaluation?)...
>>
>>It is going to take an even more overclocked Palm and longer time controls to
>>see Tiger coming back I think.
>
> What about Star Sapphire? IIRC it will (eventually!!) use DragonBall processor
>instead of the H8. It was rumored to be 50 points stronger than Sapphire II.
>Tiger is a very strong program that has been ported to DragonBall. W-Chess is
>also strong but I do not see how W-chess can improve so much from changing H8 to
>Dragonball (and hence lose strength) and then improve so that it is even
>stronger than Sapphire II.
>
> My idea is that either Star Sapphire will be a weaker than Sapphire II or that
>Star Sapphire will use the H8 processor. Any ideas?
My guess is that the "50 elo points stronger" is bullshit (as usual), and that
the Star Sapphire would actually be weaker than the Sapphire.
But you'll never know because I think there will never be a Star Sapphire.
The Palm has simply killed the Star Sapphire before it is born. And from the
pictures I have seen, it looked like it was the same case and same hardware as
the Palm, so I can't see how such a model could be competitive in front of a
real Palm.
Another example of top class vaporware.
If they still want to release it, then good luck to them...
Christophe
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