Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:37:51 01/17/03
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On January 17, 2003 at 15:19:25, O. Veli wrote:
>On January 17, 2003 at 13:33:34, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>
>>(and hence the Novag Diamond)have an SSDF rating of 2012 =2192 USCF so a
>>rating of 2400 USCF =2220 SSDF would not be unreasonable for the improved
>>Star Diamond.The programmer is David Kittinger from Alabama who has worked with
>
> 2200 is about a PC program running on Pentium 90. Sapphire Star Diamond, if it
>ever comes to market, will run on a 20 MHZ DragonBall processor. I am neither an
>expert on chips nor on programming, but I am pretty sure that a program cannot
>be improved to an extent that it will play stronger on a deficient processor.
And you are absolutely right.
The rating figures published by Novag are nowhere near reality.
Christophe
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