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Subject: Re: A small blitz tournament.

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 21:30:56 06/01/02

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On June 01, 2002 at 23:58:54, Brian Katz wrote:

>To the best of my knowledge, Permanent Brain is must be turned off when running
>an engine tournament, otherwise some engines that use excessive amounts of
>processing time will steal computing time from other engines. Some engines are
>notorious in this regard.
>The only true comparisons are when using two separate identical computers.
>Brian

Not on a dual CPU machine.

With 2 CPUs, the most 1 engine can take is one CPU.  Which is fine, the other
engine, uses the other CPU.

And these were run on a DUAL AMD 1.73Ghz.



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