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Subject: Re: virtual chess 64

Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Date: 22:56:47 06/23/98

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On June 23, 1998 at 12:50:30, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On June 22, 1998 at 22:34:32, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>Don't worry, Oliver; I cannot imagine nobody here purchasing a nintendo kind of
>>chess softwwre
>
>Some of these guys would buy the software *and* the machine to run it on, if it
>were 5% faster than a nice PC.
>
>Apparently, in this instance, this is not the case,  unless Virtual Chess is a
>lot slower than I'd thought.
>
>bruce

Virtual Chess on a Mac, at least, is much faster than
the reported value for the Nintendo 64 version:

Nintendo 64:   3,000 nodes/second
Mac 7300/180: 28,000 nodes/second (Virtual Chess Mac demo)

-Richard



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