Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 07:32:54 05/14/02
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On May 14, 2002 at 09:11:20, stuart taylor wrote: >On May 14, 2002 at 06:25:28, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On May 14, 2002 at 06:11:55, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>I always wondered if Fritz 7 with longer time control = more powerful machine >>>could play better ?! >>> >>> >>>Hiarcs 8 (2700) - Fritz 7 (2715) [E86] >>>Athlon 1.2 Ghz, 120'/30+120'/30+30' My Place (1), 12.05.2002 >>> >>>W=13.2 ply; 125kN/s >>>B=14.9 ply; 686kN/s > >>>Here are some additional games where I increased the 2nd second time control in >>>the middlegage stage to 6 minutes per move. It is interesting to notice that >>>the longer you let HIARCS 8 think per move the better it gets. >> >>It is truth for all programs without bugs. >> >>Uri > >Athlon 1.2 Ghz. is not much more than half the speed of the top now. So you >could have at least doubled the time alootment. > >Uri, but is it not more true about some programs than others? >And whatwas the result with 6 min per move? (though I don't see anything special >in that at all. Normally I think it often takes longer in middle game, in >tournament timed games, and it is not the fastest hardware anymore (I'm sorry to >make you feel bad. Athlon 1.2 is still great, and you should stick with it for >atleast another year or longer, but statistically, it's not fairest to Hiarcs if >Hiarcs is meant to be what we are suggesting, but you can always give even much >longer time controls, which would be equivelant to 2-4 Ghz. at tournament >timing!). >S.Taylor An Athlon XP 2100+ or a Pentium IV 2.4 running at time control of 120'/40+60'/20+30' will produce a similar performance than my athlon 1.2 Ghz at time control of 120'/30+120'/30+30' since from the first 10-20 moves of the first 40 it is generated by the Opening Book, but if you take a closer look at the 2nd time control it is 4 minutes per move, Plus most of the endgame it is taken care by the TB. Therefore, the important part of the time control is the 2nd . Even if the speed of the processor is twice on an AMD XP 2100+ it is NOT really performing twice faster. Pichard.
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