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Subject: Re: When Will the Top Chess Programs be 64 bit?

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 04:51:06 08/15/03

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On August 14, 2003 at 11:02:05, Mikael Bäckman wrote:

>On August 14, 2003 at 10:48:20, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>According to the SSDF list, the top engines are Junior, Shredder, Fritz, Tiger,
>>etceteras.  They are all 32 bit.
>>
>>I am afraid to purchase a 64 bit computer because the only chess software that
>>would run on it is Crafty, and the database managers such as ChessBase would be
>>useless too!
>
>ALL 32-bit software will run on AMD64. They may not use 64-bit instructions, but
>they will run.

And the machine will be more expensive! I believe Bob isn't afraid of the
machine as such, but of spending all his money on something the programs can't
take advantage of.

If you run 32-bit software *only*, a "cheap" P4/3.2 will do just as well. :-)


Bo Persson



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