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

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:38:23 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

As far as I know, AMD's floating point unit is compatible with Intel's.

Chess programs don't do floating point calculations anyway.

I used to have a K6-2 and ran a large number of chess programs on it. I never
had any problems with any of them. I think you should consider other causes for
your problems. Maybe bad memory?

-Tom

• Re: How Important is Floating Point to Chess Programs? paul bedrey 05:52:33 02/26/00
  • Re: Try Ram Stress Test to check your RAM ! Laurence Chen 10:59:33 02/27/00
    • Re: Try Ram Stress Test to check your RAM ! paul bedrey 14:21:56 02/28/00
  • Re: How Important is Floating Point to Chess Programs? Tom Kerrigan 13:10:42 02/26/00
• Re: How Important is Floating Point to Chess Programs? Eugene Nalimov 16:58:08 02/25/00

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