Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:59:40 06/08/98
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On June 08, 1998 at 11:37:41, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. Hi Diep: Could you post here the games where as you say Diep wiped out of the earth Nimzo? Greerings from the rain Fernando > >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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