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

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 20:41:02 03/31/99

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On March 31, 1999 at 23:30:20, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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.

By the way, I think that this whole story is probably a hoax.  Guy claims to
work for Intel but is giving out all sorts of confidential information in his
notes.

bruce



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