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Subject: Re: Replay of the Miracle of the Little Beast CTP 14.9 vs SJeng WOW!

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 14:15:24 04/08/02

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On April 07, 2002 at 14:29:09, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 07, 2002 at 13:20:22, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 07, 2002 at 13:10:41, Rafael Vasquez wrote:
>>
>>>On April 07, 2002 at 10:37:56, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>-sniped
>>>>Finally, I also overclocked my Handspring Visor
>>>>Prism to 54 Mhz
>>>-sniped
>>>
>>>Hello Jorge,
>>>
>>>I'm happy to see you are enjoying the advantages of overclocking Chess Tiger
>>>
>>>Rafael
>>
>>
>>
>>Finally!!!!
>>
>>I don't see the point to play at a reduced speed when all Palms can run much
>>faster than the default speed.
>>
>>Especially if you let Tiger Palm play against PC programs running a zillion
>>times faster!
>>
>>(I'm no masochist)
>
>I do not see what you lose from seeing palm tiger beating often pc programs that
>are zillion times faster.
>
>I agree that inspite of the result sjeng is too strong for the default speed
>but sjeng is better than a lot of programs and it seems that
>for weak programs being zillion times faster is not enough to get 50% and they
>need to be some zillions times faster.
>
>If people see that the palm tiger is better than a PC program then it is natural
>if they want to underclock the palm or improve the hardware of the loser for
>more games.
>
>If people see that palm tiger is worse than the PC  program then they want to
>improve the speed of the palm for more games.
>
>I do not think that it is something against you.
>
>In the case of sjeng I still expect sjeng to win a match thanks to the better
>hardware inspite of the fact that the palm does not run in reduced speed and it
>is too early to give sjeng better hardware but if we see that sjeng is losing
>again and again then I may change my opinion.
>
>Uri



My thinking is that people interested in chess just want to run their Palm at
the highest speed.

Why even bother to run it at a lower speed then?



    Christophe



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