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Subject: Re: Fast HW

Author: Andrew Smith

Date: 10:13:36 12/15/01

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On December 15, 2001 at 01:04:22, Will Singleton wrote:

>I just got a Micron Athlon XP 1900+, single cpu, running at 1.6ghz.  I am just
>blown away by the whole experience.
>
>First of all, Win XP is pretty amazing.  It appears to be rock solid, super-user
>friendly, and looks and feels great.  Wonderful utilities, auto-config
>everything, and everything seems to work.  I think this is the first OS I have
>used that appears to fulfill the promise of useful and easy computing for the
>masses.
>
>But the speed of this thing is amazing.  I can have 10 progs open at once, and
>not even notice any performance hit.  But the chess is even more amazing.  I
>have a copy of Yace, and it gets an average of 1 million nps on this monster.  I
>played a few games on ICC, and it's pretty damn strong.
>
>Here's an example.  In a 5 5 game tonight, Yace went from a negative score to
>like +2 in 10-15 seconds, like right out of book vs Rebel.  How long does it
>take your prog to go positive in this position?
>
>[D]1q2kb1r/3n1ppp/2b1p3/1Np3N1/1p1Pn3/1B6/1P2QPPP/2B2RK1 w k - 0 1
>
>The only problem with the Micron is the excessive fan noise.  Guess the Athlon
>really generates heat.  Anyone know of a way to reduce it, like a substitute
>fan?
>
>Will

Ha, I beat or was atleast equal with all of you, and using only a 333mhz
computer! :)

New position
1q2kb1r/3n1ppp/2b1p3/1Np3N1/1p1Pn3/1B6/1P2QPPP/2B2RK1 w k - 0 1

Analysis by Junior 6.0:

1.Nc3 bxc3 2.Nxe4 Qxb3
  -+  (-3.18)   Depth: 3   00:00:00
1.Nc7+ Qxc7 2.Nxe4 cxd4
  -+  (-2.06)   Depth: 3   00:00:00
1.Nxe4 Bxb5 2.Bc4 Bxc4 3.Qxc4
  µ  (-0.88)   Depth: 3   00:00:00  1kN
1.Nxe4 Bxb5 2.Bc4 Bxc4 3.Qxc4 Nb6
  µ  (-0.80)   Depth: 6   00:00:00  3kN
1.Nxe4 Qxb5 2.Qe3 c4 3.Bc2 b3 4.Bb1 Qd5
  µ  (-0.90)   Depth: 9   00:00:00  137kN
1.Nxf7!
  ³  (-0.50)   Depth: 9   00:00:01  251kN
1.Nxf7! Rg8 2.Qg4 Be7 3.Qxe6 Qxb5 4.Nd6+
  ±  (0.94)   Depth: 9   00:00:03  813kN
1.Nxf7!
  ±  (1.24)   Depth: 11   00:00:10  2081kN
1.Nxf7! Rg8 2.Qg4 Be7 3.Qxe6 Bxb5 4.Re1 Ndf6 5.Bf4 Bd7 6.Bxb8 Bxe6 7.Bxe6
  +-  (1.44)   Depth: 11   00:00:22  4034kN

(only, MyTown 22.10.2001)

Seems Junior is good in this particular position...




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