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In short, whereas the three golden rules of engine competition in the past were cores, cores and cores, today those same golden rules are threads, threads and threads.

Robert, I assume you are using the Xeon E5-2698 v4?

I guess all I can say about yours is that my experience has been that cores = kN/s and kN/s = ELO, so I'm addicted to kN/s. The more the better. 100k would be great.

Thanks guys, I appreciate your replies. Perhaps I should have said from the outset that the system will be used for both engineering work and ICCF chess. I'm reasonably confident that scaling is not a significant problem today, and have always been a fan of more cores. I'm sure i9 7xxxxx would be gr...

Thanks. Perhaps the new AMD or Intel 10-cores might be better. I assume these programs still limit us to a single socket platform like the X99?

I have begun to look for a new system (>16 CPU) and figured the experts here would know or have an opinion. Just as a starting point, something like an Asus X99-M WS and Intel Xeon E5-2697 V4 2.3GHz Eighteen Core 45MB 145W, there's likely better stuff out there though.

This match is infinitely more interesting than the results of the latest K v SF test match

Go Tom Go!

S.Taylor wrote:He improves his score with more time and more core.

Both of which I have tons of

Graham Banks wrote:Komodo takes the lead by 40.0-38.0 with ten games left.

My only comment is that in VLTC correspondence play any differences between these two are perhaps immeasurable, they each have strengths and weaknesses

Anil, I still haven't gotten over your post:

Stockfish is for little boys playing quick games on their laptops or crummy AMD hardware!

And here I thought my sarcasm was unequalled.