Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:10:37 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 15:51:06, Tony Werten wrote: >On May 02, 2001 at 12:30:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 01, 2001 at 04:33:28, Tony Werten wrote: >> >>>It's already a long discussion but one thing is unclear to me. >>> >>>Why does GT have to be smp to participate in the challenge for Kramnik >>>tournament ? Last dutch championship Fritz participated on a dual machine and >>>finished third. Tiger won the tournament with 2 points more, the King (also >>>single processor) finished second. >>> >>>So why exclude a single processor program that has proven to be capable of >>>beating multi processor programs ? >>> >>>cheers, >>> >>>Tony >> >> >>Because the SMP programs are _stronger_. Simple math. Just take Fritz >>vs Fritz 5 times faster to understand. That is what SMP means when you >>have 8 cpus. > >Yes, this is very simple math. Let a program play against itself on a faster >machine and it will be stronger. The faster program will see everything the >slower does and more. > >I'm just not convinced that an 8 processor Fritz will beat Gambit Tiger. Last >year dutch (human) championship has proven that such a Fritz can be killed by >experienced players quite easily. It doesn't stand a change against Kramnik. > >Tony Why? Last time something was posted here, fritz _was_ beating gambit tiger, and on _equal_ hardware to boot. If Fritz can beat it on equal hardware, don't you imagine that a 5x faster fritz will do even better? I don't think Tiger's speculative stuff will work against Kramnik any better than Fritz's passive style of play. _Either_ will have severe problems I suspect. You might attack a GM wildly in a 5 0 blitz game on ICC. But to do so at 40/2, you had _better_ know what you are doing...
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