Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:37:37 04/11/03
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On April 11, 2003 at 13:14:21, Uri Blass wrote: >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? I can only guess based on games/testresults I observed at faster timecontrols (g/30, g/60) that gave me the impression it can. I haven't let them play games at 120/40. Also there were not enough games. My impression is based on testgames against Chess Tiger for the Palm. > >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. > I believe that 120/40 on 486 is equivalent to 5/40 on faster hardware but a 486 is a very slow computer and I suspect the computer where I could let it play 5/40 would still be quite slow - it's only factor 24 between the time controls. On a P90 Tiger 11.8 was stronger than Genius at 120/40 (SSDF) but I don't know much faster a P90 is. I calculated it once but forgot the result :). I have a P233 though - if someone can calculate how much faster it is for chessprograms I could play some matches. Peter
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