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Subject: Re: What Processor Did Ferret run on During the Shirov Ferret match on icc?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 16:58:03 08/18/99

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On August 18, 1999 at 16:09:50, odell hall wrote:

>Does anyone know? Bruce Moreland perhaps?  I find it hard to believe that shirov
>could win so effortlessly at that time control Game\30 against a top program.
>Maybe Shirov is the best against computers??

It ran on a 133 mhz Pentium processor, with two instances of the program running
simultaneously, one of which was sitting there the whole time trying to decide
between 1. e4 and 1. d4.  I must not have been using a huge hash table because I
don't think the disk was thrashing, it was just running half speed.

I wasn't able to be at home during the match, so I left instructions about how
to start the program, and due to inexperience the person who started the program
made a mistake and started it twice.

I don't know what would have happened if it had been running only once on the
machine.  Probably the same thing.

Shirov is really really strong, not to belabor the obivous.

bruce



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