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I thought I'd put a post together with Bryan's tests. Here is the first one:
TESCO HUDL2 ANDROID TABLET
Based on what I could research Tesco which is a superstore in UK similar to Walmart sold their HUDL 2 Android table for 99 British Pounds = @ $150. It is a Quad Core 16 GB Android Tablet computer with a speed of 1.83 GHz with 2 GB RAM.
HUDL 2 STOCKFISH 7 - TORD ROMSTAD ETC - JAN 2016
Stockfish 7 came out January 2, 2016 and was originally written by Tord Romstad. But nowadays there is a whole team of people working on this project.
TESCO HUDL 2 STOCKFISH 7 FINAL RATING
Well the new Stockfish 7 on a quad core tablet at 1.83 GHz hits top spot with a final rating of ELO 3183.
Serious though, what I have noticed is that it also depends on what chess program you run your tests on.
These excellent results where produced with the Droidfish program which is the only 3rd party Android chess programming mentioned on the Stockfish website. I also started the tests on two other Android chess programs that enable the import of UCI engines and their results where not as good and obviously played weaker moves.
The other 3rd party app mentioned on the Stockfish website is Smallfish for the iPhone & iPad. Ted Wong the author has advised me that he has ported Stockfish 7 to Smallfish and is presently awaiting Apple's approval. When it is released, I shall test that also. Unfortunately the official Stockfish app for the iPad contains a older version with no news of v7 being available soon.
Apple IPad 3 is a 1 GHz dual core ARM-Cortex A9 processor with 32 GB storage and 1 GB RAM. Costs in the US around $499
IPAD 3 HIARCS 13 - MARK UNIACKE - 2013
Hiarcs 13 I believe (not 100% sure) first came out for IPAD in 2012. I am not sure what version Bryan used for this test. The latest IPAD version is 13.7.5
MARK UNIACKE - PROGRAMMER
This is a young Mark Uniacke playing and winning the 1993 World Championships.
The photo is from Thorsten Czub's Hiarcs fan page:
I decided to forget about the super chess engines for a while and dug out one of my favourite piece of chess software the Mephisto Meisterschach that contains the Nimzo engine. Although nearly 20 years old and originally for Windows 95/98, I tested it on my Windows XP and its scores where very impressive!
Chessmaster Ireland wrote:I decided to forget about the super chess engines for a while and dug out one of my favourite piece of chess software the Mephisto Meisterschach that contains the Nimzo engine. Although nearly 20 years old and originally for Windows 95/98, I tested it on my Windows XP and its scores where very impressive!
Bryan recently sent me his test results for Psion 2 (assuming it is Psion version 2.13) tested through DOS Box using his HP Compaq 2.4 GHz 2-Core computer.
HP COMPAQ 8510: INTEL 2 DUO CPU 64 BIT @ 2.40 GHZ: 2GB RAM
It's a little slower than my HP duo core laptop which runs at 2.8 GHZ.
DOSBOX PSION 2 (2.13?) - RICHARD LANG - 1987
The above is what Psion 2 written by Richard Lang in 1987 looks like under DOSbox.
DOSBOX PSION 2 (2.13?) TEST RESULT
DOSBox Psion 2 finished with a score of ELO 2032. I had recently also tested Psion version 2.0 on Atari ST 8 MHz 4 MB RAM where Psion 2.0 scored ELO 2011.
It looks like Bryan's DOSbox test plays at around the equivalent of a 68,000 Atari ST running at 11.3 MHz. (+42% faster than a standard Atari ST).
