Author: James T. Walker
Date: 07:45:29 03/23/02
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On March 23, 2002 at 07:52:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On March 22, 2002 at 18:32:56, James T. Walker wrote: > >>CSTal II hits about 30-35K/nps on my AMD 1.4G machine. On a K6-3-450 it usually >>hit around 10K. Who knows when the hardware gets this thing up to about 1M/nps >>it may be the strongest thing around. :=) Don't throw it away yet. > >I see absolutely no reason to assume it will play better compared to >other programs when the hardware gets faster. > >In fact, people have said the exact same thing as you 2-3 years ago, >and I only see CSTal getting worse compared to new programs, not better. > >-- >GCP Hey GCP, lighten up! Can't you see the :-) ?? CSTal-2(.03) has some serious problems which could have been fixed by the Genius if he was as smart as he thought he was. It didn't happen. He gave up. I guess it was more than he could handle. Sometimes the search baloons and CSTal can't handle the tactics. It needed a complete re-write to speed up it's search. The loss to Fritz above looks like a very poor opening to me. I would hate to play the black side of that opening. It still is a fun engine to play against. Jim
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