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Subject: Re: Is not Crafty faster?

Author: Mark Young

Date: 20:59:57 06/17/98

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On June 17, 1998 at 20:42:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 17, 1998 at 18:21:50, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Fritz on Primergy will achieve the greatest speed of any chess program running
>>on commercial PC hardware.
>>
>>I seen this at www.chessbase.com.
>>
>>Is not crafty running on a 4 Ppro200 faster then Fritz 5 running on 2 P II 333?
>
>
>probably not, but their claim is ok since crafty is not faster.  However,
>on a 4 processor alpha, it could easily be 3-4 times faster than fritz.

I took it to mean pure hardware speed. Not node count. When I think of hardware
speed. I think of how many instruction per second can the hardware execute.



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