Author: blass uri
Date: 03:10:28 04/30/98
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On April 30, 1998 at 05:44:17, Didzis Cirulis wrote: >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. I do not agree. we can give other programs the same RAM we give to fritz this will not change the RAM fritz have. I am not sure that big RAM help fritz of course 20 Mbytes is much better than 2 Mbytes but I am not sure 128Mbytes is much better than 20Mbytes. maybe one of the reason it failed in paris was that it does not earn from very big hash tables and from powerbook that give power only to the opponent(in the last game of it against Junior it lost mainly because of the opening book). I believe that Genius benefit from additional RAM and even if it is not much your suggestion give unfair adventage to fritz. >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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