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Subject: Re: CM8000 clock settings

Author: pavel

Date: 07:18:33 11/27/00

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On November 27, 2000 at 10:01:02, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:


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>
>Maybe you should resort to letting both chess engines solve tactical and
>positional test suites to compare strenght.
>
>Jeroen ;-}

but isnt that supposed to be "not" the ideal way to compare strength?
i mean, look at the logic behind it, we are only testing few tactical or
positional test positions, which one program might solve better while the other
wont. But does it make one better/worse than the other?
not to mention, it is well awared by many that engine can be easily tuned to
make good results in test suites.

(ie, gandalf is good in many test suites, I still beat gandalf quiet often, in
ICS, running on pentium II 400 using an unknown beta program, while gandalf runs
on a pentium III 800-1000mhz !!)

i still go through the eng-eng method.
IMO test suites does'nt tell the whole story.

just a thought,

pavs ;)



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