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Subject: Re: A stupid question

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 14:34:06 01/10/02

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On January 10, 2002 at 16:44:57, pavel wrote:

>I have a Pentium III 1Ghz 512mb ram
>
>SSDF top machine is an athlon 1200 256mb ram.
>
>My question, whats a good time control in my computer to make a match comparable
>to a 60/120, 40/40, all/40 time control in an athlon 1200 in SSDF?
>
>considering the fact that I will running in a single processor and with ponder
>off.
>
>really stupid question, uh?

Nope. There has been a championship where they tried to compensate for this kind
of stuff.   (IRRC paris 91, AMD 233) Problem is that if you give the slower
machine more time ( FE the Mhz % difference) that the stronger machine will use
that time in it's pondering.

That's on 2 processors.(ie 2 machines mormally) Of course you can switch
pondering off on a single processor but since Crafty can't handle that, that's
not accademcly safe so you're not allowed to switch ponder off.

Well ( sracasme switched off) on a single processor you'll get the best results
with longer time controls.

Tony

>
>pavs ;)



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