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Subject: Re: Past - Presence : Genius 4 - Chess Tiger 14.1

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 23:34:47 08/30/01

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On August 31, 2001 at 00:11:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>I agree with christophe that the time control is too fast.
>

Christophe said nothing like that . He expressed his concern that the 486
computer is still too fast compaired to a Palm and his speed numbers indeed
suggest this is probably true ( his idea to make up for this with the longer
time conrol assumes diminishing returns btw, doesn't it ;) ? ). I will have to
think about how to get a good and valid test of speed.

>I am more interested what happens at tournament time control(120/40)

Then please test it :).

>and I believe that tiger earns more from time because Genius is optimized for
>blitz.

People keep saying that all the time .. I don't buy it - a little excerpt from
the SSDF list:

  61 Shredder 1.0 Pentium 90 MHz             2282   59   -58   145   53%  2263
  62 Nimzo 3.0  Pentium 90 MHz               2279   26   -25   767   58%  2220
  63 R30 v. 2.5                              2274   41   -38   343   69%  2135
  64 Hiarcs 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz               2273   30   -30   545   56%  2228
  65 Genius 4.0 DOS 486/50-66 MHz            2265   23   -23   900   49%  2269
  66 Junior 3.3-3.5  Pentium 90 MHz          2257   31   -31   516   47%  2277
  67 Genius 3.0 486/50-66 MHz                2255   24   -23   910   62%  2168
  68 MChess Pro 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz           2254   29   -29   578   52%  2238
  69 CometA90  64MB P200 MMX                 2252   37   -39   358   36%  2351
  70 192  64MB P200 MMX                      2248   44   -46   248   41%  2316
  71 Fritz 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz                2240   18   -19  1438   42%  2297
  72 Mephisto Genius 2.0  486/50-66 MHz      2235   23   -23   917   58%  2176
  73 Fritz 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz                2233   40   -39   324   60%  2163
  74 WChess 1.06 Pentium 90 MHz              2230   20   -20  1222   39%  2308
  75 MChess Pro 5.0 486/50-66 MHz            2227   26   -26   691   50%  2229
  76 Kallisto 1.98 Pentium 90 MHz            2226   21   -22  1049   42%  2283

It seems that Genius 4 is the strongest computer program tested on 486 CPUs so
far at tournament time control and can even compete with Shredder 1 , Nimzo 3
and Fritz 4 on Pentium 90 and Comet A90 on Pentium 200 MMX .

If you think about it - how did Genius get all of its WM titles with its said
blitz optimization ?

Regards,

pete



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