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

Author: odell hall

Date: 18:48:01 08/18/99

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On August 18, 1999 at 19:58:03, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>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



Ok thanks Bruce , that explains it.  I knew something had to be wrong there.  No
doubt shirov is a very strong player against computers , but I doubt if he could
perform the same result against ferret running on it's current hardware.
>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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