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Subject: Re: Live on ICC | Match 25+10 | Rybka v Quad Shredder | FINAL SCORE

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:14:43 12/17/05

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On December 18, 2005 at 00:37:25, George Sobala wrote:

>The Final Score was that Rybka lost the 25+10 match by -3 +1 =2
>
>At all time controls, 10GHz Quad Shredder beat 1.6GHz Rybka by +8 -3 =4
>
>The GHz difference is actually a bit smaller than it looks: the Pentium M is a
>quick CPU for chess, and comparing the two machines in Shredder kN/second, the
>Quad is about 4x faster than the Pentium M (about 1500 kN/sec v 350 kN/sec from
>the start position).
>
>However it seems that the hardware speedup is more than enough to put the little
>fish in its place.
>
>Sometime next year we may be seeing a Quad Rybka, that will be interesting,
>perhaps Vasik would like to rename it to "Shark" at that point!

Did shredder use 64 bit version on the fast system?
Is your comparison between the version that was used on the fast system and the
32 bit version of shredder?

Uri



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