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

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 10:13:32 09/25/00

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On September 25, 2000 at 12:13:21, Eddie wrote:

>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 .......   :))

Shredder4/K7-500/TBs/96/32MB hash: 3.0
Tiger2b/K6-200/32MB hash:        : 2.0

Next run will be the 5-0-games with reversed machines.




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