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Subject: Re: Old question?

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 11:50:01 06/03/99

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On June 03, 1999 at 12:30:51, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:

>I think this was asked (and answered), a while ago.  How much better is todays
>chess playing software compared to programs likes Fritz3, Genius2, HIARCS2.1,
>compared to todays versions, if put on todays hardware.  Are programmer's really
>making great progress beyond the speedup of the microprocesser's, and the large
>ram memory available?

I have noticed that some newer programs seem weaker than the older versions when
used on machines that were around when the older versions were written.  So it's
not enough to just make the hardware faster (this helps somewhat of course), but
to get the most out of it you also have to adjust the program to take advantage
of the added speed.



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