Author: Steve B
Date: 04:25:42 11/24/05
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On November 24, 2005 at 07:08:25, Chuck wrote: >Happy Thanksgiving! > >The Novag Obsidian (http://www.novag.com) has been out for about 2 years now. It >was interesting as part of a new wave of chess computers from Novag after a long >period. It is also very unusual in that it incorporates 2 CPU's where almost all >chess computers use only one. To top it off, these are H8 processors - as far as >I know, the Obsidian is the only multiprocessor computer ever made using the H8. >However, I really haven't noted any reports of how the Obsidian performs. Even >the Schachcomputer web site (http://www.schachcomputer.info) doesn't have any >information on the Obsidian. So I decided to fill the void. I've run the BT2450 >test suite on the Obsidian and played a number of games at Game in 1 hour, 17 so >far. The games I will post later. > >Below are the results for the BT2450 for the Novag Obsidian: > >Posn Seconds >1 113 >2 898 >3 71 >4 900 >5 900 >6 900 >7 900 >8 29 >9 155 >10 488 >11 900 >12 900 >13 69 >14 900 >15 5 >16 7 >17 617 >18 900 >19 421 >20 900 >21 71 >22 29 >23 14 >24 900 >25 900 >26 1 >27 900 >28 900 >29 19 >30 900 > >Total Time: 15,607 seconds > >According to the description of the formula for calculating the ELO correlation >for this test on the Rebel Chess web site >(http://www.rebel.nl/rebelfaq/rc3faq03.htm), we have this result: > >Novag Obsidian BT-2450 ELO: 1930 > >Probably the addition of some RAM would have improved the result significantly. >One note about the test is a problem, the info displayed is not configurable so >by default you only see the 1st move of the best line once every 12 seconds or >so (it shows for 2 seconds). So in some cases, I had to replay the move to try >to get the initial selection of the correct move to the nearest second. This was >difficult and doesn't help the accuracy of testing. > >Hopefully, Novag is not too far off in developing the replacement to the >Obsidian now, especially since Christmas is near. > >Cheers, > >Chuck
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