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Subject: Re: Evaluation-based Reductions and/or Extensions

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 14:11:53 12/30/03

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On December 30, 2003 at 16:34:17, Tom Likens wrote:

>On December 30, 2003 at 16:13:56, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>[-snip-]
>
>>Hi Tom,
>>
>>Thanks for your kind words. It's certainly nice to be able to think about
>>computer chess again after the madness of the last 12 weeks! I had made some
>>progress towards PMv1008, but I'm not happy with what I've got and I've kind of
>>lost the thread of what I was trying to achieve, so my next step is to roll my
>>development version back to 1007 and have another go at it. So, my list of jobs
>>to be completed before CCT6 looks like this:
>>
>>1. Roll back to v1007
>>2. Buy an EXTREMELY FAST processor and motherboard
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Andrew
>
>Yeah, isn't CVS wonderful?  I'm not sure how many times it has saved my bacon,
>but certainly
>more than once.
>
>I also did the faster computer thing.  I bought an FX-51, but I have yet to get
>the 64-bit stuff
>working.   The 64-bit version of SUSE can't access the Promise controller and
>SATA drives that
>came with it.  So I need to install a "normal" IDE drives (probably this
>weekend).  Still, even
>without  taking  advantage of the 64-bit features and registers the speedup was
>*very* nice
>(roughly 2x).  Worth a few elo anyway (at the very least it shouldn't make it
>weaker).  Either
>way CCT-6 should be fun.
>
>--tom

OK. 2x faster is great. But 2x faster than what? I was looking at the
bog-standard Athlon64 - 3200. This will be a big improvement over my Athlon
1200, but I'm not sure how much of a big improvement.

Andrew




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