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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