Author: odell hall
Date: 23:00:11 10/15/99
Go up one level in this thread
On October 15, 1999 at 23:25:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 15, 1999 at 15:28:59, odell hall wrote: > >>On October 15, 1999 at 15:19:43, Paul Massie wrote: >> >>>It's worth keeping in mind that the Rebel hardware for three of those games was >>>relatively old and slow. Only the top game was played on a fast PC. That makes >>>Rebel's result look somewhat better. >>> >>>Paul >>> >> >> Yeah but the problem is I thought I heard larry kaufman saying that computers >>are grandmasters on Pent 200, and the ssdf list suggest the same, But after >>watching these Strong IM's I do not think I could believe this. Probally need a >>Amd 400 or better to get GM results. This leads me to another question. On what >>hardware are we measuring whatever Rebel is GM? If it played on a 486 would we >>factor in these results also? I am a little confused here? > >The hardware is a good question. However, one game was played on the k6 600 >machine that was flakey before. It seemed to be fine this time around. The >others weren't on exactly 'cheesy' hardware, so I don't think the hardware >issue is a big one, since there aren't many of these 4 at a time matches >in planning. > >I think Larry has always been _very_ liberal in labeling computers as GM. As >has Monty Newborn (check out the last 10 years of ACM tournaments, and every >year it mentions GM strength). I didn't notice all of the hardware, but it is >probably listed on Ed's web site... but there were at least PII/400's in the >group with the K6 600. > > Actually the machines that played along side the Amd K6-600 was a Amd k6-500, and Amd k6-300 and also PentII350. >> >> >> >>>On October 15, 1999 at 15:00:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On October 15, 1999 at 13:25:17, Howard Exner wrote: >>>> >>>>>Anyone have the scoop on this re-match? Watching the one game on the rebel page >>>>>but how are the other three games unfolding? >>>> >>>> >>>>Rebel won 1 game, lost 2, and drew 1.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.