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Subject: Re: ICC rating study

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:06:25 04/22/00

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On April 22, 2000 at 09:21:57, Matt wrote:

>Just a small thing... When your computer is the fastest computer out there, your
>computer doesnt lose much by playing other computers....
>
>Assume you did this same test with a slower comp, say a pair of PII 300s.
>
>Now I suspect the difference you see will be much greater, because people with
>faster comps can 'pick on' your slow comp, while your comp playing only humans
>will crush the majority of its opponents anyways.


This happens _anyway_.  The machine crafty runs on is not "dedicated" to playing
nothing but chess.  I run all sorts of things on it during the day, and some-
times students do also.  Which is a performance killer that can easily make it
play like a PII/300 for 30 minutes or so...




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