Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:37:41 06/08/98
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On June 07, 1998 at 18:04:01, William Dozier wrote: >Good day everyone: I have had the DIAMOND NOVAG for about two years and >so far i have not been sorry that i brought it. It is worth every dollar >that i spent for it and some and it is fast. It has beaten SARGON V FOR >the Mac, it has beaten crafty on numerious times. It has beaten MacChess >PPc Version 3, 4. it has beaten RadioShack 2150. It has not beaten >Hiarcs 60. It is interesting to note that the program for the DIAMOND >NOVAG by the same people who wrote the program for Hiarcs. So any >program that cannot beat it, its a weak program, that is why i called it >a refeerence chess standalone, where as i guage other strong chess >programs. How old is that mac, like an XT or something? Don't run new programs at old hardware. current programs are designed for pentium cpu, so they expect to get a certain depth at least. You can therefore never benchmark a an old chesscomputer, because it gets badly outsearched when playing against the pentium. When a program gets badly outsearched, then it's hard to compare results. For example, nimzo is an excellent blitz program, and at blitz level it makes meat out of Diep, and the rest of the world (at equal hardware using auto232 and not the internet). Yet if i give diep 2.2 times faster hardware (pentium 133 versus Pentium Pro), then nimzo gets wiped from earth. Nimzo is for its play depending on speed. So as soon as it does not have its advantage (namely it sees tactical way more at blitz at same hardware), then results suddenly say nothing, because besides its positional weaker play it then also sees tactical not more, so that's a walk over. If i interpret this well, then you can never depend on an old computer to see how well a program plays, because there is hardly difference between a result of 8.5-1.5 and 9.5-0.5, when not running at comparable hardware. Greetings, Vincent
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