Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:54:32 08/30/01
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On August 30, 2001 at 08:25:14, Peter Berger wrote: >On August 30, 2001 at 04:06:14, Mark Young wrote: > >>>> Part of the progress has been due >>>>to incremental changes to chess engines/evaluations/etc, part has been due to >>>>the hardware speed advances. Probably more of the latter than the former, if >>>>the truth is known... >>> >>>I think that advances in software from Genius2 to Deep Fritz is more than 200 >>>elo at tournament time control. >> >>I have played matches with today’s programs with the programs of 10 years ago >>for fun; mismatch is an understatement in describing the outcome for the older >>generation programs. >> > >Another good and more uncommon test would be to do it the other way around . >Play today's programs on yesterday's hardware and compair. > >A 486 DX50( or 33- don't remember) with 4MB RAM was probably hot hardware 10 >years ago . I still have one in the corner of my room - and much to my surprise >it started without problems . Only mouse support has gone. But it seems there is >a functional Genius 4 for WfW 3.11 on it - and I can even give ~1 MB for >hashtables - hooray . > >And fortunately I have Chess Tiger 14.1 an absolute top program of today on an >overclocked Palm Vx here which I guess should be similar speed ? I'll try some >games. > I'm very much looking forward to hearing the results (and seeing the games) from that match! Please post here when you have something! (PS: I bought a 486/DX33 in 1991 and it was a very new CPU/bus speed at the time.)
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