Author: Steve Maughan
Date: 02:18:27 02/16/00
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A couple of comments: 1) Hardware has GREATLY improved over the last ten years. Palm Genius is running on a 16 MHz DragonBall. Richard says that this is the equivalent to (at least for the Palm) the Roma on a 12 MHz 68000. Maybe there is more optimisation to be done - I don't know. This means that a 400 MHz Celeron is somewhere in the region of 400-800 mips compared to the 2.5 mips of the Palm ie a 200 times speed advantage. This is a serious speed advantage. Looking at Genius 6.5 it calculates about 200,000 nps - so I imagine that the Palm is doing less than one thousand nodes for it's one second of thought. I would say that it's amazing how well it plays considering the number of nodes that are being examined. 2) Thinking in opponents time has been disabled. This will appear in the 'Pro' version. Clearly at such fast time controls this is important. 3) Haven't we all been 'spoilt' by the speed and strength of todays programs running on fast PC? I've pitted Palm Genius against Junior 6 on 450 MHz P2 and it's amazing how quickly it crushes the Palm. By move 15 it usually has found a slightly weak move and by move 25 the game is over! Playing with Palm Genius reminds me of when I was playing against computer 10 years ago - some of the time I would win - most of the time I wouldn't Regards, Steve Maughan
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