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Subject: Re: Christophe T. developed the Chess Tiger on a Slloww Pentium.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:18:57 11/25/02

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On November 25, 2002 at 11:30:04, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>Peter,
>
>I recall that Christophe was using a 200 to 400 Mhz PII to develop the Tiger.
>I am not sure what he is using now. I agree that if a program can find a winning
>move on a slow machine very quickly then it is a much better program than a
>brute-force program such as Deep Blue.
>
>TJF

I do not say that blitz is unimportant but I still think that a fast machine is
an advantage because it is possible to do an eqvivalent test faster on a faster
machine.

Christophe did good results because he is good programmer and not thanks to
testing on inferior machines.

Uri



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