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Fluppio
Hallo Helmut,
ich hatte das Angebot auch vorher per Mail erhalten. Für MGS wars mir zu teuer, aber beim Encore liegt es preislich m.E. noch im Rahmen (Rückversand ist ja inkl. und der Kurs fürs Pfund hilft auch). Wenn die Zeitangaben stimmen dürfte der Steinitz Encore bei 6-7MHz liegen. Ich werds sehen.
Übrigens, Du mußt nicht Dein Steinitz Modul einsenden. Es wird lediglich eine Hülle vom Modul benötigt für die neue Platine.
Gruß, Peter
Hallo Peter,
Da wuerde ich mich noch mal mit den Mann erkuendigen. Der Encore bleibt bei Stainitz 4 MHz sofern ich es weiss. Die differenz in den zeiten gegenueber den GGM Steinitz 4 Mhz ist weil der Encore mehr efficient (sorry englisches Wort
) ist und die bauteile weniger schrott in sich haben nach seine bearbeitung und daher zeigt er schnellere Stellungs zeiten.
Hier ist korrespondenz auf Englisch:
When further developments were made as regards code, it was no-doubt pertinent to realise that a non-upgradeable unit such as an Encore, should be made to perform reasonably well (for the day, that is), because it is a fixed thing and once you got it, that's it !!
One has to remember that the 4-MHz unit was a 'produced' unit and a handful were indeed made, it's just that Applied-Concepts could not compete with cheap units being made in the far-east and immediately dropped-out of chess !
Now of course, a problem arises, yes i do have a few versions of code but there never was anything like the hardware even realised to support faster units in those days and therefore nothing came of it. But if i said it WAS possible, then sadly, i don't think anyone would ever really be intersted in a Mega-4, they'd all want a Mega-8 or 12 or 16 !!
The 4-MHz Morphy-Encore was a good example of an un-produced unit. It had a large extra table of openings built into it. I have played some lines and compared them with a Gruenfeld-S module on that old broken unit you sent me. They seem to be just about a perfect match so i'm guessing a Gruenfeld-S table here. But this code has a curious quirk............It seems to call the opening-table immediately on power-up so that if you turned on your machine and wanted to set-up a position instead of playing a game from start, you have to make a non-opening move such as a2-a4 and then set-up your position, otherwise it remains in the opening book ! I think this is an example of un-finished code but it seems to work ok.
Also, people don't realise that an increase in speed is subject to diminishing returns due to the fact that the game-tree is so vast. Doubling-up does not mean that you double your depth. This is very wrong. You may give yourself enough speed to look another ply deeper in a complex position. Although it will see more ply's ahead as material begins to thin-out.
Viele Gruesse
Nick