Author: blass uri
Date: 03:26:21 02/16/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 05:18:27, Steve Maughan wrote: >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. I do not think that it is amazing and I do not see the point of selling a program that is 200 times slower than Genius. I simply do not see a reason to buy it. If you want to play against a weak computer program you can tell other free programs to play at fixed ply depth and you do not need the palm genius. Uri
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