Author: Will Singleton
Date: 22:18:38 01/17/00
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On January 17, 2000 at 17:45:28, Peter Kappler wrote: >On January 17, 2000 at 17:06:20, Will Singleton wrote: > >> >>Here's a list of the participants (so far), together with a guess at the >>hardware each will use. Please advise of corrections, and we can pass the list >>on to McRiley at ICC. Also, the list is ordered loosely, based on my knowledge >>(and lack thereof) of the programs standard playing strength *and* cpu speed. >>I'm sure suggestions would be helpful to McRiley in this regard as well. >> >>Ferret Xeon/450 x4 >>Crafty Xeon/400 x4 >>ZarkovX K2/333 or K3/475 >>Nimzo Xeon/616 >>Shredder (older version, hardware?) > > >Here's my 2 cents on the ranking: > >I'd move Zarkov down to #5 (behind Nimzo and Shredder) especially since it's >running on fairly slow hardware. > >Nimzo and Shredder should get the #3 and #4 slots depending on which has the >faster hardware. If the hardware is similar, I'd give the nod to Shredder, as >reigning world champion. > Maybe so. Hard to argue with success, but I thought it would be nice to have three Americans at the top. (no, just kidding.) > >>Little Goliath >>LambChop Kryotech/1ghz >>Diep P/200 x4 >>Insomniac >>GnuChess P3/500 > >Is this a custom-modified version of Gnu? If it's just the stock version that >ships with Winboard, I think it should be lower down the list. > >>PostModernist P3/450 >>Amateur G3/500 > >Aha - I see you've got yourself a new machine! Nice. :-) Should get the upgrade card next week. The specs say the system bus speed is unchanged at 66mhz, so I'm looking at a 67% speedup. Don't anticipate much change at std time controls. >I can testify from personal experience that PM and Amateur are stronger than >Grok. :-( > When Grok is on the Athlon, I'm not so sure. >>Grok Athlon/650 >>EXchess P3/500 >>Hossa P2/350 > >I don't know anything about EXchess. I'd argue that Hossa deserves to be higher >on this list, but on a P2-350, this ranking is probably fair. > >--Peter > > >>Bringer P2/300 >>Galahad K2/400 >>Averno >>Tinker P2/266 >>UruChess
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