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Subject: Re: XBox-360 - Good for Chess??

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 19:11:43 05/13/05

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On May 13, 2005 at 20:54:28, John Merlino wrote:

>On May 13, 2005 at 16:43:34, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On May 13, 2005 at 16:27:41, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>PS: The reason why I mentioned this is that my ChessMaster fot my X-Box plays
>>much stronger than my ChessMaster CM10th with my mere Athlon XP2000+ Mhz. If
>>Michrosoft make it backwards compatible, it will need a least Hydra to beat it.
>
>I find that very hard to believe. What are you basing that result on? When you
>are running CM for Windows, what other features do you have running? It is
>possible to have two engines running concurrently -- one playing and the other
>analyzing -- which means that both engines get no more than 50% of the CPU.
>
>But, even with that, it shouldn't play "much stronger" on the Xbox -- MAYBE
>equivalently....
>
>jm


I was only running two engines and my webshot screensaver in the background to
even out the hardware a little. Today is friday the 13th and everything was
against my Athlon XP2000+ ,even two virus attacks :-)

Jorge



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