Author: Mark Young
Date: 23:06:04 06/24/00
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On June 24, 2000 at 17:13:47, eric guttenberg wrote: >I have noticed quite a few recent posts reporting program vs. program >results obtained on a single computer. I continue to be a little mis- >trustful of those results as a reliable indicator of the relative >playing strengths of the programs. It has always seemed to me that some >programs are more greatly affected by the 1-machine format than others. >Is my concern misplaced here? Is there now some consensus that the >results are not in the long run different because a single machine rather >than 2 separate but identical machines are used? > >eric This has been argued for a long time here at CCC. I post single computer games now because after having results from both 1 computer and 2 computers, I found that they were about the same in the programs I have data for, as I results I see nothing wrong with posting games played on one computer. I know some feel strongly against posting 1 computer game results because they feel that the results may not accurate, but the data has not shown this feeling to be correct at least in the data I have seen.
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