Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 07:49:31 12/11/02
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On December 11, 2002 at 10:32:17, stuart taylor wrote: >On December 11, 2002 at 10:15:03, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On December 11, 2002 at 05:55:31, stuart taylor wrote: >> <snip> >>I find that what I desire is a chess-playing program that arrives at a good >>answer quickly. It is a pain to wait for the engine to make up its mind. I >>wish 3000 Kn/s chess computers were available today, at a price I could afford. >>I sure could use one for my post-mortem analyses. > >Are you saying something IS available. I can't afford my own computer nor te >programs of today, but if there were something very very special indeed, I would >try to work out a way how to get it. (up to $1000 besides my computer itself, >which I already have) >S.Taylor I don't know about $1000. That may require that you build it yourself. Unless you are good at that sort of thing, that is not really an option for you. Maybe the main consideration in determining the price is the answer to the question: "How big must the hash [transposition] tables be? That would determine how much RAM you would need to purchase. RAM can be expensive if you want a lot of it. Someone recently posted a bulletin giving Crafty v18.11 Benchmark figures. A computer using an AthlonXP 2.52 GHz processor was said to give about 1600 Kn/s. Maybe in a year that figure will rise to 2000? By comparison, Fritz 7 on my 1 GHz computer is giving me slightly less than 500 Kn/s on average. I hope to see some improvement with Fritz 8, but maybe not. Incidentally, the chess software is dirt cheap. The most expensive chess software on my computer is CB8, with the Megabase2002 games. Chess engines go for about $50. The "big" money is for the hardware. Bob D. <snip>
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