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Subject: Re: ICT3 Leiden(9) results The King has won!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:16:00 05/18/03

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On May 18, 2003 at 14:00:24, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On May 18, 2003 at 13:16:09, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 18, 2003 at 13:13:01, Thomas Lagershausen wrote:
>>
>>>On May 18, 2003 at 13:01:45, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi Johan
>>>>
>>>>My congratulatations! The King has played some very fine games and I am happy
>>>>that people will now understand [what I know for a long time already] that your
>>>>engine belongs to the absolute top programs.
>>>>
>>>>Kind regards
>>>>Kurt
>>>
>>>As you know this comes as no surprise for us.
>>>
>>>Thomas
>>
>>I think that it is a small surprise because the king does not support smp when
>>shredder and Fritz and Sjeng used  2 processors and at least shredder and Fritz
>>were considered to be at similiar level to the king on one processor.
>>
>>Uri
>
>    Hi Uri
>    It's still my opinion that hardware is overestimated provided the
>    there is not too much difference. Program X losing most of the time
>    on both P3/650 will still not win if it can use a P4/1800.
>    Kurt

I said small surprise and I do not know that shredder or Fritz lose most of the
time to the king on equal hardware.

I agree that a program that get less than 45% may get still less than 50% with 2
processors but Fritz or shredder get more than 45% against the king on equal
hardware.

Uri



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