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Subject: Re: SSDF, Fritz5 games

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 05:00:35 02/28/98

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On February 28, 1998 at 05:40:01, Moritz Berger wrote:

>On February 27, 1998 at 17:52:53, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>>That looked quite amazing until I noticed the machines.  Fritz had a
>>>3X speed advantage, maybe more, so that is not quite so surprising as
>>>if they were run on equal hardware...
>>
>>Confirm again !
>>Are this official ssdf-games ???
>
>SSDF has been doing this with *ALL* over programs for a long time ...
>
>Now Thorsten finds out that they treat Fritz 5 in the same way (i.e.
>playing 200MMX vs. P90).
>
>*Now* he's beginning to wonder ...
>
>Moritz

And I wonder why.

By the way, SSDF is not the only one to run matches this way. Even in
Paris we saw programs running on platforms 2 or 3 times faster than
others.

Something else: a 3x increase in speed is worth roughly 100 points,
equivalent to scoring 62%. In both matches reported by Tony, Fritz 5
scored almost 80%, which represents quite a bit more than the expected
increase in strength due to a 3x speed up.

Enrique



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