Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 14:24:08 11/25/98
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On November 25, 1998 at 16:23:01, Scott Shepherd wrote: >How would I figure the rating on the lower settings of my Sapphire2. Mainly >Interested in the......AT1-8 Settings. also I have a Celeron 300a overclocked to >450 with 128 megs of ram and several other Chess programs. (Extreme Chess, >Chessmaster 4000-6000, Power Chess 97, Rebel Decade, Kasparovs Gambit.) can I >use these Programs to guage my novag and what Elo what these programs run at on >My system? > Thank You Check out the ratings of SapphireII on FICS for a real-world performance ranking of a Novag Sapphire II (or Diamond II). If you observe its games on FICS, it will whisper when it changes levels (it switches down levels as its time runs out). It uses the sudden death levels if there is no increment. Rating type Average Best Starting levels Lightning 2150 2212 AT1..AT2 Blitz 2050 2210 AT2..AT5, SD1..SD3 Standard 2100 2174 AT5..AT8, SD4..SD6 On FICS, SapphireII only holds its own against search limited crafties and amateur programs (8-8=3 vs. HMchess for instance). There aren't many other dedicated computers playing on the servers these days. The SapphireII runs at only 32MHz, so *any* program on a modern PC will outsearch it several ply for equivalent thinking times. This is true for any dedicated chess computer.
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