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Subject: Re: Kasparov RISC2500 rating question for Mr. Johan de Koning

Author: Johan de Koning

Date: 21:00:00 05/24/03

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On May 24, 2003 at 22:04:42, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On May 24, 2003 at 18:32:32, Murat wrote:
>
>>
>>Hello, Mr.Koning
>>
>>I do own a Kasparov RISC2500 chess computer and I had it upgraded to
>>512K ram. I was wondering how much if any extra elo points I gained from
>>this upgrade. There are some ratings posted on the net for the 128K version.
>>
>>The computer LCD display reads after a clean boot:
>>
>>128K ROM  512K RAM  RISC2500  V1.04
>>
>>
>>Thank you for looking into this
>>
>>
>>Best regards
>>
>>Murat
>
>going from 128K to 512K --- maybe 5 or 10 at most elo points IMO

That's a long time ago, but IIRC the 128 version used 32kB TT, while the 512
used 384 kB. So it's more like 20, maybe 30, *at long time controls*. At 5
secondes/move the difference is about 0.

Most of the RAM was occupied by the interface and engine code and data.



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