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

Author: Mark Young

Date: 20:25:27 09/04/99

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On September 04, 1999 at 22:17:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

I heard that Ed said it was a bad version of Rebel that caused the
problem....but I know your statement is true about AMD in general.



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