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Subject: Re: An amazing Tiger-2-result!

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 11:55:30 09/24/00

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On September 24, 2000 at 14:42:51, Uri Blass wrote:

>On September 24, 2000 at 14:10:42, Eddie wrote:
>
>>On September 24, 2000 at 10:20:46, Harald Faber wrote:
>>
>>>On September 24, 2000 at 10:10:01, Eddie wrote:
>>>
>>>>Did you play Tiger/K7-500 against Shredder4/K6-200 ??   These are two completely
>>>>different speeds of processor correct?   What kind of results would you expect
>>>>from such?!!    The faster the computer, the better the results is all this
>>>>means ........
>>>
>>>Yes, Tiger had the Athlon-500 and 96MB hash while Shredder had the K6-200 with
>>>24/8MB hash, g/120. As I said before, the first 7 games which Tiger played
>>>wihtout the London-book, Shredder won by 4.5-2.5 (+4 =1 -2) on the slower
>>>hardware!
>>>
>>>Like it or not, a 5-0 is not very usual, even with this hardware difference. I
>>>have played several games with Shredder on the slow machine and Shredder never
>>>got crushed that high, not even against Tiger-12e.
>>
>>Why don't you give Shredder the faster machine, and then come back and post some
>>more results!!  :))   I don't like unfair results from unfair computer speeds!
>>Have a great day .....  :))
>
>I have no problem with results from different computer speeds.
>If there is the same computer speed people can also complain that it is unfair
>to play with a good program against a bad program.
>
>I think that everything is fair if you tell the conditions that you play the
>games.
>
>Uri



However I have suggested to Harald to exchange the computers and replay the
match.



    Christophe



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