Author: Will Singleton
Date: 09:13:03 09/19/99
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On September 19, 1999 at 10:12:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 18, 1999 at 22:49:20, Christophe Theron wrote: > >> >> >>I think a tournament on slow hardware (386-16 to 386-40, or 486 <=33MHz) >>including top programs of the early 90s and programs of today would be very >>interesting. We could amongst other things see if there have been really no >>advances in software in the last 10 years. > >I don't think the test would be 'fair' if that is what you want to examine. >IE many of the software improvements come as a result of hardware changes that >make the programs fast enough that they can do things they couldn't on slower >hardware. IE would you play _anyone_ if you could only do a 5 ply search? >Would you even think about null-move R=2? Would you have your program spend >50% of its time in the evaluation? THose are all decisions I had to address >and the answer would be different if I was doing 1K nodes per second on a >386/16.. > My program (since it only plays on one machine) definitely is targeted to that speed (300 mhz). It wouldn't be the same program if it had to play on a 68000 25 mhz. However, I'd like to know if some of the commercial programmers make provisions for different targets, and alter search and eval strategies based on machine speed. Will
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