Author: Robert Trombley
Date: 14:53:22 03/21/99
I have setup several identical positions on both machines and timed them to see how long it took to find the best move. I have setup about 10 unique positions, and discovered that at least for these positions, the PIII is on average only 3X faster. In other words, if it took the P150 30 seconds to find the best move, the PIII-500 would find it in about 10 seconds. I would have guessed that the faster machine should be at least 7X faster. The program I used was Genius 5 dos with 31M hash and normal settings. On the PIII-500 it did poorly against Crafty clones on 5 minute games with 5 second increments for entering moves manually. Granted, I am giving time odds to the clones, and I did not play a large enough number of games. Does the 3X factor sound correct?
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