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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