Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:40:17 05/02/00
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On May 02, 2000 at 03:22:36, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On May 02, 2000 at 01:10:58, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>About one week ago I posted "sensational" blitz Nunn test result Crafty17.10 - >>Fritz6a 12-8. And I wasn't lying! Now I have more time to re-check and second >>match ended 9 - 11 for Fritz. I also repeated two other matches with interesting >>results: >> 1. 2. >>Crafty 17.10 - Lg2000 13 - 7 9,5 - 10,5 >>Fritz6a - Lg2000 13,5 - 6,5 11 - 9 >> >>Exact enviroment: AMD 450Mhz, ponder of, 16+16MB hash, 4m+1s level, 3+4+some >>5 piece TBs, Fritz6 interface, early resign. >> >>Conclusion: after 20 games You don't know much yet... >> >>Jouni > >With learn off, the games should be exactly reproducable (IMHO). Why should the >search algo of either prog under the same pre-conditions produce another best >move for any of the positions some time later? >If you are right, then IMO either (or both) progs are kind of buggy, accessing >some non-initialized data or similar ? >Or does any body have anothe explanation ? > >Uli See above. Timing is not perfectly reproducible, unless you check the time after each node. And even then the O/S has some quantization problems that will make this inexact.
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