Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 16:53:26 08/24/00
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On August 24, 2000 at 19:34:17, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On August 24, 2000 at 18:53:53, Eran wrote: > >>Different chess programs use different processor speed, and the results may not >>be fair. If Junior uses Pentium III 1000 Mhz instead of 700 Mhz, Junior might be >>a bit stronger and belong to the group of top chess programs, Shredder, Fritz, >>and Nimzo. I assume that if all chess programs use the same processor speed >>exactly, for instance Pentium III 1000 Mhz, the wmcc results will be enough >>reliable and fair. Do you agree with it? >> >>Eran > >The speed of the machines is only a small part of the picture. More important is >the number of rounds. 9 rounds is only a tiny fraction of the number of rounds >needed to produce a reliable result. You are correct by stating that 9 rounds is not sifficient to produce a reliable source, but by the end of tomorrow each of the top four programs will have played each other at least twice, which is not enough, but at least you can study those games carefully and make a reasonable judgement of how much improvement that particular program has made from the previous version. For instance I have Fritz 6a and an Athlon 800 Mhz with 128 SDRAM by playing over most of the games in which Fritz ? is playing I found out that the newer version of Fritz? is more of a positional player than the previous version. Pichard.
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