Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:11:24 08/30/01
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On August 30, 2001 at 18:24:38, Peter Berger wrote: >A hot topic on CCC these days seems to be how hardware and software advances in >computerchess correlate during the last >10 years. > >After reading a lot of interesting posts this morning I felt inspired to do a >little experiment. > >Mark Young wants to do experiments with older programs on present hardware and >is convinced he'll find out that the newer >programs will show considerable progress. > >I agree to his expectations. > >A few posters suggested that top chessprograms advanced about 200 ELO points in >software alone in the last 10 years . > >Depends .. > >New programs will take advance of the superior hardware availlable also in >design probably - so this test should be taken into >both directions IMHO. > >So - looking around in my room my eyes suddenly feel on a dusty 486 computer >sleeping in the corner of my room - and then >suddenly my Palm began to beep in the briefcase ( the truth , not made-up) . > >In advance : there has been convincing data posted that Chess Tiger on a Palm is >probably stronger than Chess Genius on a >Palm by Werner Schuele. >As Chess Genius on a Palm is said to be a port of the Mephisto Roma to Palm >architecture >we are talking about at least 14 years of development here though. > >So the contenders : > >Genius 4 ( which isn't supposed to be superior to Genius 3 in public opinion - >so 10 years isn't far away) >on my 486DX50 computer ( in fact I don't really remember if it is 50 or 33 Mhz >and dunno how to test) - >so let's assume the 50 here with 4 MB RAM , so 1 MB availlable for hash >-> clearly a program of the past > >against > >ChessTiger 14.1 on Palm Vx overclocked as much as possible with AfterBurner -> >clearly a present top program > >I am no hardware freak so if this is very unfair I should be informed - it's >simply what was availlable here. > >I decided on games in 15 minutes ( dunno why ) . > >It probably should be added that I am a fan of the ChessTiger program now and >have been a fan of ChessGenius in the past- so >I was simply curious . I agree with christophe that the time control is too fast. I am more interested what happens at tournament time control(120/40) and I believe that tiger earns more from time because Genius is optimized for blitz. Uri
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