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Subject: Re: What about the result of game Rebel-Hoffman? (NT)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:17:37 09/04/99

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On September 04, 1999 at 18:35:32, James T. Walker wrote:

>I feel bad for Ed and the Rebel team.  It appears that ED had a corrupted
>version of Rebel loaded and it crashed 10 times during the match.  It was still
>a good game in which the GM IMHO played very good.(As GM's are prone to do).  I
>think his opening selection was perfect for him.  He seemed to be in control
>most of the way after gambiting a pawn.
>Jim Walker


No.. the problem was the overclocked AMD machine.  If you overclock, you ask
for trouble.  And in general, if you ask often enough, you receive what you
ask for...

I'm not counting this game in the "Is the computer a GM?" rating calculation,
as obviously Rebel was broken by the hardware.

For the record, overclocking AMD is _bad_.  I have had several horror stories
from Crafty users about this.  It seems that the AMD engineers know what their
chips can run at, and going beyond that gets you into deep water.  Intel seems
to be more conservative rating their chips...



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