Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 09:19:12 11/26/03
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On November 26, 2003 at 09:30:42, Terry McCracken wrote: >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) All that has to happen is for one of the lower rated programs 2550-2650 to get another upset against Shredder or Fritz which is possible, and Brutus to continue winning from now on :-) >Terry
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