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To: Paul Engel who wrote (35019)	7/23/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1584064

K6-2-450 takes on #2 rated chess player, and its WINNING. (from chiptech.com Remember last year, when Big Blue (IBM) shaped up against the world's greatest chess champion...and barely won? Well, The K6-2 is currently battling Viswanathan Anand, the #2 chess guy, in the same game. But where IBM took a supercomputer (and almost failed), AMD and Kryotech has taken a PC anyone could buy. And is winning. Specifically, the K6-2 slammed Anand -- by the way, it's not the same Anand -- 4.5 to 1.5, in yesterday's series of games! Today, it's a tie at 0.5 to 0.5, but with the AMD chip winning by three games and only one more game to go, it would take a mathematical imbecile not to notice that it would be extremely difficult for Vishy to pull through with an amazing comeback. Anyway, I thought this newsworthy because it's an event potentially more groundbreaking than last year's win against Kasperov. In that series, the computer was constantly being upgraded during the tournament, and the win was way too close. Here, it's a decisive win. BTW, the software used is a commercially available program called Rebel. rebel.nl The page explaining the landmark acheivement is right here. rebel.nl And at this page rebel.nl are benchmarks clearly explaining why they went with the K6-2. Interestingly enough, the AMD chip is far faster than any corresponding Intel chip. In fact, the K6-2-333 was capable of processing the complex information in Rebel faster than a PII-400! Petz

To: Paul Engel who wrote (35019)	7/23/1998 3:43:00 PM
From: Majic-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584064

- repairs a second bug with a software fix ?! "as it repairs a second bug with a software fix in the complex processor" Aha. So that is how intel "repairs" their $4.500 Cpu's.. Nice to know, when you buy such a thing, that it's broken from the beginning, and you get the "paint and brush" included to fix the big scratch on your newley bought Chevrolet corvette V12. Very nice. InHell really thinks they can continue doing everything they like, and think that the customers and dealers won't mind at all. Way to go Inhell. Michael da Kota, Holland.