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

Author: George Sobala

Date: 00:57:30 12/18/05

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On December 18, 2005 at 02:14:43, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

There is only one executable for Deep Shredder on the Mac, and it runs on both
the 32-bit G4 and the 64-bit G5. I guess it runs 32-bit but you would have to
ask Stefan to confirm this.



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