Author: Mike S.
Date: 14:42:57 02/26/03
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On February 26, 2003 at 16:56:54, John Wentworth2 wrote: >(...) >My point is that to have a faster time control to counter 1 machine being so >much faster. This theory may be totally flawed but since you gave such a longer >time to Mephisto, Fritz 8 just sat there and looked much further and anticipated >what the Mephisto would do. If the time control had been faster it wouldn't of >been able to look quite as far. Just a theory though IMO the time compensation method requires to take the pondering time into account... with such large differences in speed, I think there's no other option which makes sense, than to disable the permanent brain. When the speed differences are smaller, it may be possible to find a reasonable compromise with one or both programs pondering. But not in this extreme case I think. I have the same chess computer. When it was built, it was celebrated as a speed wizard at a level which was unkown so far, in consumer chess products. The clock rate is 14 MHZ (!) only, on an ARM2 risc cpu. This is a real risc cpu AFAIK, not just "risc style" like in the NOVAG Sapphires. Needs a very large mains adaptor :o). The Athlon 2400+ probably runs at around 2 GHz real clock rate (I don't know it exactly at the moment). Not taking all the many other hardware differences into account, this means the pc is ~140 times faster (2000/14) -> For full time compensation, Fritz would have to use less than 1 minute for 40 moves when the Mephisto has 120 minutes available... Regards, M.Scheidl
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