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

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 13:37:51 11/25/02

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Uri,

Exactly! Better programmers produce better programs. Usually.

TJF

On November 25, 2002 at 12:18:57, Uri Blass wrote:

>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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