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Subject: Re: SSDF oddity

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 20:32:47 10/04/01

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On October 04, 2001 at 15:19:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 04, 2001 at 15:15:36, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>>      THE SSDF RATING LIST 2001-10-02   81185 games played by  226 computers
>>>                                           Rating   +     -  Games   Won  Oppo
>>>                                           ------  ---   --- -----   ---  ----
>>>   1 Deep Fritz 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz        2726   55   -51   182   65%  2618
>>>   2 Gambit Tiger 2.0  256MB Athlon 1200     2720   50   -48   205   59%  2653
>>>   3 Chess Tiger 14.0 CB 256MB Athlon 1200   2703   49   -46   230   65%  2592
>>>   4 Shredder 5.32  256MB Athlon 1200        2699   50   -47   222   67%  2577
>>>   5 Junior 7.0  256MB  Athlon 1200          2679   61   -59   140   59%  2615
>>>   6 Deep Fritz  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2654   27   -26   731   63%  2560
>>>   7 Gandalf 4.32h  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz    2653   68   -63   119   61%  2574
>>>   8 Gambit Tiger 2.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz    2640   30   -29   592   66%  2521
>>>   9 Chess Tiger 14.0 CB 128MB K6-2 450 MHz  2632   32   -30   537   66%  2518
>>>  10 Junior 7.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2624   45   -42   271   65%  2518
>>>  11 Fritz 6.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz           2623   23   -23   968   64%  2521
>>>  12 Shredder 5.0  128MB  K6-2 450 MHz       2601   24   -23   928   63%  2509
>>>  13 Shredder 5.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz       2600   36   -34   409   61%  2517
>>
>>
>>Interesting that on the faster PC, Shredder 5.32 outrates Junior 7 by 20 points,
>>whereas on the slower hardware Junior 7 outrates Shredder 5.32 by 24 points.  (I
>>tend to believe the latter more.)
>
>Makes perfect sense to me.  On the WMCCC contests, Shredder always gets the
>hottest hardware available, and smokes the competition.  In other words, good
>chance that the algorithm is slightly superior, so that as speed increases
>O(f(n)) takes over.

Maybe hottest single-cpu hardware.  Usually Junior, Fritz, Ferret are dual-ing
it.

Dave



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