Author: blass uri
Date: 12:38:46 03/28/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 14:24:20, KarinsDad wrote: >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? I agree that I will not get perfect information about the level of programs in correspondence games because in correspondence games programs have hours to calculate but I believe that the information will be closer to be correct if the hardwrae of 120/40 games is faster. > >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? Difference in the minority of positions can be sometimes decisive for the result of the game. Uri
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