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Subject: Re: Overclocked AMD blunders drawn position on chessbase server.

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 15:00:35 04/07/03

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On April 07, 2003 at 17:52:26, Charles Worthington wrote:

>On April 07, 2003 at 17:49:31, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>On April 07, 2003 at 17:31:45, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>
>>>In the below game white played the move 77.Rc2?? with an eval of +1.16. On the
>>>following move black, of course, immediately gave check with 77...Bf5+! and
>>>stole the rook with an eval of -6.69. It is rather obvious that even a 1600
>>>human player would not have made such a laughable blunder only 1 ply ahead. My
>>>question is was this blunder the result of the ridiculously overclocked cpu?
>>>Shredder 7 is not known for such blunders and in a repeat of the position on my
>>>machine my Xeons did not even consider that move let alone play it. If this
>>>isn't proof enough that overclocked cpu's are unstable then I don't know what
>>>is...
>>
>>Try posting the game in a format someone can use.
>>
>>Also, this just looks to be a continuation of your AMD-bashing. Nothing more.
>
>
>AMD Bashing? LOL...Hardy...Perhaps overclocking bashing might be more accurate.
>:-) I'll try to convert the format.

Once you see the position and the move Aaron I think you will agree that it is a
legitimate question as to the stability of _this_ particular overclocked
cpu...not all of them. My question is how do you know which will act this way
and which will not?



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