Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:29:16 01/30/01
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On January 29, 2001 at 17:32:05, Peter Berger wrote:
>On January 29, 2001 at 13:01:58, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
><snip lot of stuff >
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>>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.
>>
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>> Christophe
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>
>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 )
Great Pete! I'm waiting for such an experiment since a long time!
Christophe
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