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Subject: AMD and Intel Do Care! [About Chess Engines]

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 17:16:27 12/02/02

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On December 02, 2002 at 18:26:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 02, 2002 at 17:21:07, Bob Durrett wrote:

<snip>

>>
>>Incidentally, I doubt that either AMD or Intel care one whit about chess
>>engines.

>
>You'd be wrong, because Crafty is in _the_ benchmark that everyone uses to
>compare
>raw CPU power.  I've talked to _every_ chip manufacturer over time, helping them
>understand the code, helping them track down compiler bugs with high levels of
>optimization, etc.  They aren't paranoid about it, but they do take notice since
>chess
>is "in the mix."

<snip>

Wow!!!!

Sincerely, if Bob Hyatt had accomplished nothing else but to get chess "in the
mix," that alone would be sufficient.  That is a great accomplishment, IMHO.  :
)



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