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Subject: Re: The selective search ratings list, just a few observations

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 04:43:58 05/31/01

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On May 31, 2001 at 02:37:05, ERIQ wrote:

>After looking at his latest list I couldn't help but think that their is no way
>that a comp could get a 2600+ fide rating running on a pentium pro 300 mhz.
>
>Also I happened to notice that the highest three standalones are not sold here
>in the us. anymore and that in fact the highest was from 1995. I also noticed
>that they ran on 68020-68030 but now we have much faster chip like g3-g4 I don't
>know much but wouldn't it be a breeze to port the programs over to g4's.
>
> Is this to say that we are going backward in strength for standalones. I had
>thought that present tech. should be much faster and cheaper.
>
>I have no idea what to make of this.

Selective Search is heavly based on SSDF, however, when SSDF did a
re-calibration last year, SS did not, also additional games are incorporated
into SS that SSDF does not use (no, I am not sure what those additional games
are).  I like the SS (and other lists like Chessbits and Shep's and ratings from
Frank's page) since they add more programs, different time controls and are
good for comparisons.  I view SS has a little to high when compared to SSDF,
Chessbits and Frank's (other lists are also informative) and ofcourse the HvC
performance ratings.

Just my opinion.  :)

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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