Author: Peter Berger
Date: 14:32:05 01/29/01
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On January 29, 2001 at 13:01:58, Christophe Theron wrote: <snip lot of stuff > > > >No, it's easy to do. Nothing tricky here. All you need is the hardware (many >people have it) and a little time (maybe one week of computer time). > >But nobody does it, because it's more easy and fun to just guess and discuss >endlessly about it. > >But by doing so people miss the real beauty of computer chess. Too bad. > > > > Christophe Thanks :-) ! In fact I couldn't agree more ! I also noticed Severi tends to agree .. I really think it is pretty easy to set up and to verify . Someone already tried it before but used one of the worst examples with Fritz and Crafty in my opinion ( which whatever its author says is neither influenced by pondering or hardware much ) ; in fact my private results even suggest a negative correlation for this engine . I definitely _will_ do this test although it might take a little time as the amount of my spare time has currently reached an all time low ( same as the amount of "lazy" CPUs ) . My best canditates for the potential fast-hardware-gainers : Gandalf and Nimzo . My best canditates for engines which won't gain _as_ much with faster hardware : the Tigers or Crafty . My candidates for engines which maybe should be avoided as they probably will/ might prove something else : Hiarcs and yace . Time control should be blitzy ; I will go for 5 minutes blitz , 3 secs increment but anything similar should do . With ERT it's a piece of cake ; 500 games on "fast" hardware , 500 games on "slow" hardware ( only thing needed is a quick look at the final positions to cross-check everything went OK ) . Maybe its worth to think a minute about eliminating learning effects but shouldn't be a _too_ big issue anyway IMHO , so I vote for ignoring it and simply play with default learning settings. Also easy to set up for every Winboard fan ( /mg 500 , hint ) . The _good_ thing : you just need _one_ free comp , set this up ( _every_ Rebel 11 owner or Winboard user has all that is needed !! ) and post the result here . No need to do it on x compis ; the result of others should do the rest of the job . If you read this : why not waste a little CPU time for the sake of science ?? I volunteer to give help to anyone who chooses a Winboard engine to do this test with ERT under Rebel Tiger II and has problems setting it up ( simply email me ) . Cheers . pete > > > > > >> questioning a result created this way is pretty easy , creating >>it pretty time-consuming IMHO . >> >>pete
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