Author: Leon Stancliff
Date: 23:13:19 07/25/98
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On July 25, 1998 at 18:55:30, Mark Gaddis wrote: >I am sure that most of you are running your chess software on various >configurations of PC's, with the fastest I am aware of being 400MHz Pentium >II's. I want to let you know there is something much faster out there. But it >is a Mac! I am running a G3 Mac at 310MHZ with a 1Meg backside cache also >running at 310MHz. Byte Magazine has a benchmark utility which will run on both > PC's and Macs called Bytemark. My machine gives benchmark values more that >double the 300MHz P2 I have at work. This means that it should be significantly >faster than even a 400MHz P2. I have not had time to do any testing with HIARCS >6.0 on my Mac, but I will be curious to see how strong it is on a machine this >fast. Has anyone had any experience using a G3 Mac with HIARCS 6.0? Yes Mark, I have been running a Mac 7600 with a G3 275/183 and 1 Meg Backside cache for enough games to be fairly confident of the results on ICC. Check the ratings for Abner on ICC. The difficulty is that the Mac has no access to automated play. This means there is a time handicap to be considered. Abner is able to play at just over 2500 in standard play on the ICC when I use a 15 10 setting on ICC, and play my program at game in 15 with no increment. If you come up with a means of getting automated play using your MacIntosh please let me know. Leon Stancliff
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