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Subject: Re: So why *does* Fritz beat Crafty?

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 20:30:20 03/31/99

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On March 31, 1999 at 11:23:19, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On March 31, 1999 at 07:58:53, Christopher R. Dorr wrote:
>
>>I don't remember the account name. He was chatting in the computer channel. He
>>said he was going to start running Crafty on it on ICC. Perhaps someone else
>>remembers his name, but if he really is getting 2 million NPS with Crafty, I
>>think we'll all be hearing about him shortly. Don't know why someone would
>>overclock an $8,000 machine like that (from 450 to over 600), but it should be a
>>killer before it fries itself.
>
>I don't think it will go that fast on average.  I watch Crafty kibitzes and it
>is usually significantly less than a million NPS.
>
>Crafty is on a quad 400.  A quad 600 should get around a million typically, if
>it scales.
>
>In the endgame it would probably get more.
>
>bruce

If you'll run it under NT, you can compile it with Visual C.
And my estimate is that it'll be 20-25% faster than Crafty
compiled by GNU C.

Eugene



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