Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 11:27:00 08/03/99
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On August 02, 1999 at 18:53:54, Mark Young wrote: >On August 02, 1999 at 18:36:07, Chris Taylor wrote: > >>I have started a match between Hiarcs 7.32 and Doctor? 3.0 >>Doc is running on an amd 400 with 32 meg ram, and using General.ctg >>Hiarcs is on an amd 350 with 64 meg of ram. Using its own book! >>The time is 40 mins each for the whole game, resign set to early >> >>Just like the result Tania got Hiarcs is 5 up, and the Match, is still on? >>If anyone has the slightest interest, tommorow, i will stop the match, and post >>the results? >> >>Chris Taylor >>England > >With all due respect to Bob Hyatt, having an opinion on something is one thing, >and having data on something is another. It is Bob opinion that under the >Chessbase interface engine vs engine testing with one computer will result in >flawed data. Having done both and looking at the data generated by both, I have >found both methods when using the chessbase engines give pretty much the same >results with a acceptable +/- for the amount of games played. I can find nothing >wrong in engine vs engine testing from the data I have generated. I think when >your match is done, it will pretty much agree with Tania's one computer engine >vs engine results. Mark, I agree with you completely - I have never believed that the difference betweeen 1 and 2 computer testing is significant, and it looks like we are beginning to get some data which proves this. Hopefully we can get several hundred games played under both setups, and end this debate once and for all. --Peter
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