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Subject: Re: one general request to CCRL people

Author: Greg Simpson

Date: 21:59:35 02/13/06

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On February 13, 2006 at 08:38:44, Ray Banks wrote:

>On February 13, 2006 at 07:11:21, Heinz van Kempen wrote:
>>It is ridiculous when you mention again and again that you are using twice as
>>much time and you do not need this to gain some profile.
>
>I've mentioned this myself a couple of times, not to gain profile or to imply it
>is better. I've done it because in your posts you always state "CEGT 40/40 2GHz
>time control". You miss out the important word "Intel". I've always been
>concerned, including when I was a member of CEGT,  that people may not know
>that. An AMD64 3200+ runs at 2GHz and thus it could be interpreted that your
>time control is actually much longer than it is. If you'd amend your future
>posts to say "CEGT 404/40 Intel 2GHz time control" then people have absolute
>clarity. It is a very decent time control, and takes nothing away from CEGT's
>work or ratings list, which is superb. I always look at your updates ! Of course
>this is entirely up to you, and please take this in the conciliatory tone that
>it is intended.

With Intel's various processors out now it should probably be Intel Pentium IV
2GHz for more clarity.  It begins to get unwieldy though.



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