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Subject: Re: About rating list and Tiger hype

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 06:31:22 10/28/99

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On October 28, 1999 at 08:44:50, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>>I don't until there is proof.
>>A) CM wasn't tested on P90 so there is no comparison and no evidence that Tiger
>>is also best on MMX200 or K6-450 as Rebel9 was best on P90 before but wasn't on
>>MMX200. So to conclude from the P90 result that Tiger will also be best on
>>faster machines is too early and probably wrong.
>>B) I don't like all that Tiger-hype since most of the games and results are not
>>tournament games.
>
>“Hype” is propaganda based on smoke and this is not what I am doing. We have
>quite outstanding results coming from several sources. Some results at 40/2,
>some at 60/30, and so far all seem to indicate that Tiger is the strongest in
>comp-comp. Results are facts, no hype. You may or may not like them, but your
>choice of the word “hype” is most unfortunate.

You can bury me for the choice of that word if you want to, I don't mind. :-)

Show me the tournament results. How many, who played them on which hardware
(2PCs?)?

>>Concerning TIger/K6-450 vs Prog X/P90 I think it is really nonsense to play such
>>a match, no matter if Prog X has an almost safe rating.
>>Take a class-a soccer team, let's call it team A, playing versus a team of the
>>lowest regional class (call it Z). Team A wins 10-0. Let another team out of the
>>class-a play against Z, call it team B. B wins 12-0. Would you say that team B
>>is better/stronger than team A? I would never say that until I have more results
>>and games within class-a. And you shouldn't say that too.
>
>SSDF people explained this very many times already. They might do it again in
>this thread.
>
>Enrique

I know and I was referring to that most significant argument. If a member
doesn't have 2 K6-450 or 1xK6-450+1xMMX200 but only K6-450+P90, better leave
playing programs against each other on these 2 machines.



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