Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:48:40 09/14/05
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On September 14, 2005 at 07:17:41, ludicrous wrote: >CSTAL II is the one program I can't go without. I couldn't believe - no one >could believe the price of the program CSTAL 2 that I found in a shop last >year. They had like 10 remaining copies of the CSTAL CD, and since they were >not really chess people, they sold each CD for something like 35 cents each. > >Even if I could have a pc running on a million gigahertz, I will still install >my CSTAL 2 on it (provided that the Microsoft OS running on it will still allow >me to install old software like this. --- Windows XP with SP 2 won't allow me >to install CSTAL anymore. I have to install CSTAL immediately after >reformatting my pc in order to make it work.) > >One thing I would like to know --- several years ago, people were amazed at how >good CSTAL fared against other program running, or calculating a lot faster than >it. I do not think that other programs calculated faster than CSTAL. They may calculate more nodes per second but it means nothing about speed of calculation because probably CSTAL did more calculations in every node. I also do not think that it is amazing if a program can play better than other programs when it searches less nodes per second. The target of the game is not to count more nodes and it is obvious that it is easy to make a program weaker by deleting knowledge. Uri
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