Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

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

Author: Eddie

Date: 09:13:21 09/25/00

Go up one level in this thread


On September 24, 2000 at 14:55:30, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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

Yes, thats a good suggestion!  Let's see what Shredder does when it's running on
a computer that's more than TWICE as fast as the other ....   these results will
be interesting to see.   :))    I don't want to see an ego inflated the size of
the moon, with unfair computer speeds.
Have a great day .......   :))



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.