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Eh, no. A single Core Duo would be enough to challenge most masters with GNUChess or StockFish, no Apple fanboyism it's needed. Heck; even Nanochess was rough
by anthk 10mo ago
Eh, no. A single Core Duo would be enough to challenge most masters with GNUChess or StockFish, no Apple fanboyism it's needed.
Heck; even Nanochess was rough for a novice like me, and that on an n270 CPU.
- _diyar 10mo agoThe idea is that there is a time limit for each move, and that the faster processors can do more work in the same time and thus have higher elo.
- kimixa 10mo agoI think the issue is that people limited compute time as a proxy for difficulty. In that case you'll hit issues on any device that performs significantly differently from that which it was tuned in. Though I am slightly amused by people using the apple chip as an example of "high performance" in a problem that scales very well with threading.
- anthk 10mo agoPrecisely a Core Duo and a custom build with -O3 -ffast-math (a Chess engine doesn't requiere anything further from integers) and -march=$YOUR_CPU_THERE can yield crazy performance speeds without needing an m4 and a great match even for masters.