Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:14:21 04/11/03
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On April 11, 2003 at 13:02:19, Peter Berger wrote: >On April 11, 2003 at 12:20:31, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>>That's a silly stance to take. If you look at the progress of computer chess >>>over the last 10 years I would wager the *vast* majority of the progress can be >>>attributed to speedups in hardware. Simple test - take a 10-year old chess >>>program and run it on today's hardware and see what it's strength is. (OK so >>>maybe I'm overstating things here - this would be an interesting test, has it >>>been done?) >> >> >> >>On equal hardware the programs of 10 years ago get slaughtered. > >This is not true at the very top IMHO if you make the comparison on 10 year old >hardware. (I hope Genius 3 is 10 years old already :) ). > >On a 486DX50 Genius still is a powerhouse. > >Peter Does it have chances against the comercial of today in 120/40 when you use 486? Do you believe that the main disadvantage of Genius is earning less nodes from better hardware so 120/40 on 486 is not eqvivalent to 5/40 on faster hardware. Uri Uri
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