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Subject: Re: Shredder5.32's problems in the endgame

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:36:43 08/20/01

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On August 20, 2001 at 17:26:32, Slater Wold wrote:

>I am at work now, but just looking at the position and your eval, I would almost
>guarantee that on my 2x1.7Ghz, it'll find it, and in a reasonable amount of
>time.  What it took your p200 to do in 11 hours, will take my computer 41
>minutes.  (Just a mathematical ESTIMATION.)  If it takes 5 hours for yours,
>should take mine, at the MAX, 20 minutes.  And I am guessing it won't take half
>that time.
>
>I will post the eval around 6pm central time.

You also get another interesting effect with multiple CPU's.
Sometimes, it will solve much faster than a single CPU (far more than simple
math would explain).  Strangely, it never seems to take perversely longer.  I've
yet to figure that one out.



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