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Subject: Re: Hiarcs 9 - Chess Tiger 2004 - 33 games - Long

Author: Mark R. Anderson

Date: 12:26:57 11/01/04

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Albert,

I have a PIV 3.6 ghz, and have never had an AMD machine.  However, I've always
heard that AMD is a lot faster for chess.  It seemed to me that since Tiger was
on the Athlon machine, it was probably getting a bit of a speed boost.  Perhaps
I was wrong.  Sorry.

Mark Anderson

On November 01, 2004 at 08:58:38, Albert Silver wrote:

>On November 01, 2004 at 06:13:10, Mark R. Anderson wrote:
>
>>Peter,
>>
>>Yes, Hiarcs is known to be a good at blitz, but what's worse for Tiger here is
>>that Tiger was playing with a hardware speed advantage and still lost badly.
>
>Err, you mean the opposite no doubt. Hiarcs had the hardware advantage.
>
>>>Hiarcs 9 used a PIV 2.0Ghz 128M hash tables.
>>>Chess Tiger was on an Athlon 1800+ 96M hash tables.
>
>                                                 Albert



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