Axon Bench by Vladan Vuckovic (Serbia and Montenegro):

Axon Bench has Geniss Axon XP chess engine, totaly written
in machine language.

It is mixture of 16-bit and 32-bit instructions. So, we
could say that Athlon processors are more optimized for
that kind of code compared with Intel machines. The test
proves that for computer chess AMD machines are the best
choise. PIV-s are simply over-optymized only for CLEAR
32-bit code.

It is interesting fact that huge number of chess engines
(with exception of Fritz) runs much better on AMD
processors !

Vladan Vuckovic
October 14th, 2003

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