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Subject: Re: How Important is Floating Point to Chess Programs?

Author: leonid

Date: 15:00:53 02/25/00

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On February 25, 2000 at 15:07:04, paul bedrey wrote:

>   I recently received a comment by a computer chess pro stating that Intel has
>a propriatory Floating Point code and that AMD although close doesn't exactly
>duplicate it. He said it may be why most of my chess programs have problems
>running on my AMD K6 475. Can any programers confirm or deny this?
>I hope I don't have to buy a new cpu just to cure my addiction to chess!
>
>Thanks

Hi!

If you wrote your chess game, I am curious to know where you use the
coprocessor. In my game it is used only for calculating the speed of the logic
before saying it (nodes/second rate). I never found no application for
coprocessor in the game. But maybe existe some other way to program where
coprocessor could be very useful.

Regards,
Leonid.



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