Author: David Dory
Date: 00:03:43 12/18/01
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On December 17, 2001 at 14:16:50, David Hanley wrote: >Seems like i'm seeing pentiums and athlons pretty similarly priced. I tend to >like the athlon, just to help out the "little guy" but that is the experience of >you guys with these chips and your chess programs? > No, not EVEN! Athlons of comparable speed for chess programs are hundreds of dollars less than Pentiums. The pentium 2 Giggers can NOT keep up with the Athlon's. As a test, I took a crazy tic-tac-toe program which uses minimax (no alpha beta of any kind) to calculate it's best move, put it on a floppy and hit several local computer stores and tried it out. The tic-tac-toe program has to look at millions of positions before it makes it's first move (this is not a typical tic-tac-toe board, it is larger (4 x 4)) Anyway, test times were: Athlon 1.6GHz 569 seconds Pentium 2GHz 634 seconds And, the Athlon was several hundreds cheaper, too. Guess which I purchased? :-)) David
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