Author: KarinsDad
Date: 11:24:20 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 12:20:50, blass uri wrote: [snip] >> >> >>I believe that testing programs with Hardware of 450 Mhz PIII or AMD K6 II >>450 Mhz is more than sufficient, since more than 70% of the people in the World >>has computer with equal or lesser capacity. And this test is done to give an >>idea of the playing strenght of the top playing programs such as Fritz 6a Junior >>6a etc.. to the majority of the people, not just the few including myself who >>can afford to have the latest computer and the best 3 programs available. > >I disagree. > >I want to know the ability of programs time control that is slower than >tournament time control on my pIII450 because I use programs for correspondence >games and in order to know it testing program on the latest computers is >important because 120/40 on the latest hardware is similiar to 240/40 on >pIII450. > >Uri What is your point? If program A at 450 Mhz has 12 rating points more than program B at 450 Mhz, what makes you think that running them at 1000 Mhz will make program B any better than program A? And is knowing or suspecting that really important? For any given program, regardless of whether it is number 1 on the SSDF or number 10, will it do any better than any of the other top ten programs for correspondence games? Can running a program at double the Mhz really give you any more information on how well it will perform for correspondence games? Or are the top ten programs so close to each other that for any given position, there is very little indication as to which program will give the best move based on their limited similar scopes, regardless of speeds? A doubling of speed does not even increase the depth by one ply, so what does this buy you for the vast majority of positions (when comparing two programs)? Anything at all? KarinsDad :)
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