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Subject: Re: Better to use slower PC's to determine Chess skill ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:29:51 01/12/01

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On January 12, 2001 at 13:58:17, John Wentworth wrote:

>This may be a silly question but, in order to determine the strength of chess
>software , wouldn't it be more accurate to use slower hardware? It seems to me
>that when faster hardware is used, it just increases the tactical ability of the
>software and does not really show what the software "knows" or "understands"

It is not truth.
It shows what the software knows or understands.

There is a difference between programs on the same hardware even if you give
them hours they do not suggest the same move and there are cases when one of
them is wrong and another is right.

Uri



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