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Subject: Re: Checkers: Las Vegas and Chinook

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 22:30:27 09/16/02

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On September 16, 2002 at 14:25:06, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On September 16, 2002 at 03:45:03, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>oh - too bad! i'd have been interested - i'm sure chinook would have solved this
>>faster than my engine, but i'd have liked to know how much faster. i've found a
>>problem in my evaluation which hurts in this particular position - i'll have to
>>try and fix it. thx for trying anyway!
>>
>>aloha
>>  martin
>
>I will ask again when it is done.  The code is being upgraded to allow the use
>of the 10-piece tablebases.  (Not all of them are generated yet, but it can use
>the partial set that has been computed.)
>
>Dave

Oh, one more thing, Martin.  I asked about the processing power of the SGI
machine that was used in 1994-95.  Jonathan told me that he got about 100K
nodes/second, and we (back-of-the-envelope :-) figured that the ballpark
Intel-based PC equivalent to that hardware is about a Pentium (I) 150 MHz.  So I
underestimated with single-double digit megahertz, but Pentium III 1 GHz is way
off the mark too.

Dave




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