Author: odell hall
Date: 15:16:44 09/16/99
Hi Generally speaking, what does the computer chess community consider fast hardware nowadays? Pent 200mmx? Pent 300?. I have heard references to the pent 200 as being slow?? This is kind of funny, slow? compared to what? Five years ago I was hearing people say that the pent90 genius3 was possibly GM strength at 40/2, now every speaks of the pent90 like it is a 386, and when someone beats a top program on a pent 90 people say that the win was because it was on "weak hardware. It seems like whatever hardware is considered super strong today, in a few years when something better comes out, then the rating of the previous hardware is deflated by a large margin. I will bet that in four years people will be saying the Rebel 10 only plays at 2300 elo on a pent 450. Computer rating on various platforms never achieves any continuity.
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