Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 04:13:02 11/20/00
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On November 20, 2000 at 01:09:16, Uri Blass wrote: >I disagree. >If this was the case he could only publish the names of the programs without >publishing the hardware. at the time he published the hardware, at the beginning, he was not sure if junior or df would win. >He also could not be sure that faster hardware will help to win and there are a >lot of examples when programs with slower hardware won tournaments. true. >You said in the past that the fact that Fritz can use more processors is not >important because it can only help it to see the draw scores faster. right. give gambit-tiger ONE 800 cpu and it will kill df on 2 or 4 of these cpus. but giving gambit-tiger 500 when others have 1000 and 1100 machines is really unique method to test the strength. even on this cpu it made a 3rd rank. >Did you change your mind about it? no. >Do you think that Deep fritz or Deep Junior is the best for people who have >machine with more than one processor? i prefer using shredder5. >I do not know it. >The programmer does not know it and he said that both programs are at the same >level. >I understood from Jeroen that Gambittiger is better but not with the commercial >book that was build for tiger13 and not for gambittiger. right. better make your own book. >It is impossible to do fair competition >Equal hardware is also never fair. equal hardware in not fair. aha. now i know why we have problems to discuss things ... >If you use equal hardware of one processor Deep Fritz is going to >suffer(remember that part of the programming of Fritz was to make it able to use >more than one processor and without this effort it is possible that they could >create a better engine). why not give df 2x500 Mhz ! :-)) >If you use equal hardware with more than one processor programs like tiger that >can use only one processor are going to suffer because people with machines >with only one processor are more interested in the results when all program use >one processor. > >I am satisfied with the fact that we know about the hardware of the players. yes. i am satisfied too. >Uri
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