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Subject: Re: Dual Opertons 244 or XP 2800+

Author: Pavel Blokhine

Date: 16:10:37 06/21/03

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On June 21, 2003 at 13:40:36, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>On June 21, 2003 at 13:00:51, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
>
>>On June 21, 2003 at 11:21:18, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>>
>>>On June 20, 2003 at 15:11:20, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
>>>
>>>>There's a guy on the playchess.com server whou uses a Dual Opteron 240 (1.4 Ghz)
>>>>and his kN/s for DF7, Shredder 7.04 and DJ8 Zx right up there with mine(mine is
>>>>faster but not by much) and I have a Dual Xeon 3.06 Ghz.
>>>>
>>>>I will try to find the links to support what I just told you. But most of these
>>>>top programs aren't optimized for the Opteron yet.
>>>
>>>Blargh on ICC is a dual 1.6Ghz Opteron - and he's the top rated standard player,
>>>computer or human.  All the more impressive when you consider the next two are
>>>computers that play only humans, while Blargh takes on all comers.
>>>
>>>The nice thing about Opteron is that (unlike the P4) you don't have to optimize
>>>your code to get top performance out of it.  It will run your 386 code screaming
>>>fast.
>>
>>
>>Hi! I registered on ICC for a computer account, so how do I make my computer
>>play against other comps there or GMs?
>>
>>Thanks
>
>Depends what chess engine you want to use and what interface you use to play on
>chess servers.  If you want to use the Chessbase GUI, I wrote a HOWTO located at
>http://strops.sense.net/egan/index.htm
>
>Winboard and Arena are both free, and Arena supports both UCI and Winboard
>engines.  Arena's biggest drawback is that it doesn't have opening books for UCI
>engines that don't come with their own (like Shredder).  If you want to use
>Chess Tiger or Deep Sjeng, Chess Partner by Lokasoft is the most solid and
>cheapest of the commercial GUI's in my experience.
>
>Chess Assistant 7.1 has a ton of features and has database functionality in
>addition to ICC support, and it supports UCI and Winboard engines also - but its
>stability is not the greatest especially on SMP machines.  However, I like it's
>ICC interface so much I use it for my personal login just about exclusively.
>It's the only interface I know that lets you observe games and have an engine do
>infinite analysis of the game in progress.  It's around $100 though.




"Open your favorite text editor and create a file in the Winboard directory
called wb.cmd with the following line:"


What is supposed to be the favorite text editor? i created the wb.cmd file
already but the rest seems kind of confusing



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