Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 02:44:37 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 03:14:52, Martin Schubert wrote: >Quote from kasparowchess: >>Some technical notes sent from match director Professor Enrique Irazoqui: >> >>1. Both programs are "Deep" (utilizing dual processors). >>2. Fritz's NPS (Nodes [roughly positions - ed.] per second) is a little less >than one million, which is slower than the Fritz 6 version everybody is used >to. >>3. After game five Prof. Irazoqui swapped machines, transferring both programs >and the books with the learning values. [To ensure no advantage, much the way >teams switch sides of the court in most team sports. -ed.] >>4. Enrique also measured the performance of both machines and found them equal >(0.2% difference). >>5. He was able to duplicate both programs' moves on a different machine. > >Does anybody know a reason for changing the machines after 5 games? If to ensure >no advantage it should have been after 12 games. > >Martin You brought up an interesting detail that has baffled me too... Even if he kept on swapping the machines each 5 games, after twenty games the remaining four would have been excluded and one of the programs would have used the same machine for nine consecutive games, right? Now, why was that? *** Djordje
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