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Subject: Re: Book openings for rating lists

Author: Didzis Cirulis

Date: 02:44:17 04/30/98

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On April 30, 1998 at 04:16:05, Alessandro Morales wrote:

>But for me the most important rules to compile a rating list are:
>1) Same hardware (processor and RAM) for all programs.

Please excuse me, but I am curious.
The same RAM. :-\  Maybe I misunderstand something or what, but it seems
to me that it would not be fair to squeez all programms in the same
fixed RAM. Why? Because programs are different! For example: If I run
Hiarcs 6 or Genius 5 on my PC, they are happy with some 5Mb of RAM and
they don't need much more. They do not use it or do not benefit much
from additional RAM. Fritz is just the oposit! It really needs RAM as
Fritz is built that way.
I somehow feel unhappy of this equal RAM tendency as it seems to be
giving unnecessary advantage for "slow and clever" programs.
Possible solution would be to give any program as much RAM as it needs.
Let's turn it this way: Say, Genius needs knowledge to play good chess.
And Fritz needs RAM for the same purpose. We run Genius with 100% of
knowledge it may use. Then why we should stop Fritz from using all RAM
it needs?

Didzis Cirulis





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