Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 14:01:25 11/06/99
I notice at Stormy Chess Corner http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/thstorm/partic99.htm that one of the contestants at the Dutch Computer Championship is running on one of the just-released Imacs: McTobber99 / iMac DV, G3, 400MHz, 16 MB / Wim van Beusekom / Rotterdam, NL (I think the "16 MB" must be the hash table size - the iMac DV comes with 64 MB, and Wim tells me (see postscript) that he bought the "special" edition, which comes stock with 128 MB). McTobber is an experimental version of MacChess (note that Wim does not plan to release any more versions of MacChess, but he tells me McTobber is only slightly modified from MacChess 5.01). Wim says McTobber averages over 400,000 nps on this machine. [ Note: MacChess is definitely a "nodeburner" program - it generally gets about 10x as many nodes per second has (the much stronger) HIARCS on the same hardware.] McTobber is currently (Round 10) playing Quest (Fritz) on Board 1. Not that I think McTobber has much of a chance against Quest, but I'd be ecstatic if McTobber managed a win or draw. I asked Wim about the absence of another perennial entrant (Arthur) which is not present this year. Wim tells me that Walter Ravenek decided not to enter since he had not changed his program since last year, but that he planned to continue in the future. "Arthur" runs on both Macs and PCs, and often participates on Macs. [ Note that "Arthur" is a private program, not publicly available.] Arthur participated in the 9th World Computer Chess Championship this year. Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) http://dmoz.org/Games/Board_Games/Chess/Software/Macintosh/ Note Wim sent me: ========================================================= Hello Richard, I have bought an iMac DV Special. It is about five time faster than my 120 MHz. [ Mac 7200 - RAF] The speed on the BT2630 test with 5 seconds per position: 120 MHz: 85192 positions per second 400 MHz: 432680 positions per second Best regards, Wim. ==========================================================
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