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Subject: Re: Benefit of a faster hardware is mostly in the middlegame in Graz !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 06:16:06 11/26/03

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On November 26, 2003 at 07:22:02, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On November 26, 2003 at 02:27:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On November 26, 2003 at 01:46:50, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>"Shredder was supposed to run on a similar quad machine, but this was not
>>>delivered in time, so that Stefan Meyer Kahlen had to use a relatively modest 2
>>>x 3,06 GHz system."
>>>
>>>Amateurish
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>     It is still my opinion that the influence of
>>     the hardware is much overestimated. If Shredder
>>     wins the WCCC nobody will care. And despite
>>     the "weak" hardware, Shredder has so far done
>>     very well.
>>     Kurt
>
>That's very true. Also the hardware is _hardly_ weak! I suppose the four-way
>unit would give a small speedup and benefit, mostly in the basic endings:o)
>
>Terry

I would say that the Benefit of a faster is mostly in the middlegame, since it
is not needed in the Opening (Opening Book) or the endgame with the Nalimov
Tablebases.

Jorge



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