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Subject: Re: Rybka mutilates everyone ... not only HIARCS

Author: George Sobala

Date: 02:07:14 12/31/05

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On December 31, 2005 at 04:48:16, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 31, 2005 at 00:39:33, George Sobala wrote:
>
>>On December 31, 2005 at 00:29:16, Majd Al-Ansari wrote:
>>
>>>Hiarcs 10 is a great program and I would put it on par with the top 5.  The
>>>thing is that right now Rybka is way stronger than anything out there.
>>
>>Well - if you put the GHz crush on Rybka (e.g. putting it up against Quad
>>Shredder) it feels the pain!
>
>It is exactly what happened in the last tournament but rybka won the tournament.
>
>Maybe quad shredder is enough to compete with rybka32 bit but I doubt if it is
>enough to compete with rybka64 bits.
>
>Shredder 2 cpu seems to be weaker than Rybka 32 bit
>
>see
>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ratingall.html
>
>There is no big difference between the speed advantage from 32 bit to 64 bit and
>the speed advantage from 2 cpu shredder to 4 cpu shredder and note also that
>slightly positional personality of rybka is probably another improvement.
>
>I guess that rybka 64 bit slightly positional is better than quad shredder of
>the commercial version(note that I say nothing about non commercial version that
>may be better)
>
>Uri

I'm not convinced and am happy to play my Deep Shredder Apple Quad against 64bit
Rybka in a series of matches on ICC.

Currently playing v Rybka 64 bit on an Opteron 2.85GHz at 120+0




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