Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 06:30:42 11/26/03
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On November 26, 2003 at 09:16:06, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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 Yes an No....the middlegame advantage with the quad over the dual is very small, I doubt it would give Shredder a single ply more. However it would search a bit deeper on it's last ply. Tablebases only help in very simple endings and IMO, search is more important, and since there is far less on the board in endings the search will be more significant on the quad, but not great. Shredder will most likely win this event, unless something really goes awry. Fritz and Junior also have a shot at winning this event, but Brutus most likely won't:o) Terry
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