Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:34:23 08/31/01
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On August 31, 2001 at 02:34:47, Peter Berger wrote: >On August 31, 2001 at 00:11:24, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I agree with christophe that the time control is too fast. >> > >Christophe said nothing like that . He expressed his concern that the 486 >computer is still too fast compaired to a Palm and his speed numbers indeed >suggest this is probably true ( his idea to make up for this with the longer >time conrol assumes diminishing returns btw, doesn't it ;) ? ). I will have to >think about how to get a good and valid test of speed. > >>I am more interested what happens at tournament time control(120/40) > >Then please test it :). I am afraid that I am not interested enough to do it. > >>and I believe that tiger earns more from time because Genius is optimized for >>blitz. > >People keep saying that all the time .. I don't buy it - a little excerpt from >the SSDF list: > > 61 Shredder 1.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2282 59 -58 145 53% 2263 > 62 Nimzo 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2279 26 -25 767 58% 2220 > 63 R30 v. 2.5 2274 41 -38 343 69% 2135 > 64 Hiarcs 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2273 30 -30 545 56% 2228 > 65 Genius 4.0 DOS 486/50-66 MHz 2265 23 -23 900 49% 2269 > 66 Junior 3.3-3.5 Pentium 90 MHz 2257 31 -31 516 47% 2277 > 67 Genius 3.0 486/50-66 MHz 2255 24 -23 910 62% 2168 > 68 MChess Pro 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2254 29 -29 578 52% 2238 > 69 CometA90 64MB P200 MMX 2252 37 -39 358 36% 2351 > 70 192 64MB P200 MMX 2248 44 -46 248 41% 2316 > 71 Fritz 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2240 18 -19 1438 42% 2297 > 72 Mephisto Genius 2.0 486/50-66 MHz 2235 23 -23 917 58% 2176 > 73 Fritz 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2233 40 -39 324 60% 2163 > 74 WChess 1.06 Pentium 90 MHz 2230 20 -20 1222 39% 2308 > 75 MChess Pro 5.0 486/50-66 MHz 2227 26 -26 691 50% 2229 > 76 Kallisto 1.98 Pentium 90 MHz 2226 21 -22 1049 42% 2283 > >It seems that Genius 4 is the strongest computer program tested on 486 CPUs so >far at tournament time control and can even compete with Shredder 1 , Nimzo 3 >and Fritz 4 on Pentium 90 and Comet A90 on Pentium 200 MMX . Genius3 was the strongest also at tournament time control at the time that it played but I believe that it earns less from time relative to the top programs of today and it means that it was optimized for blitz because if the target is to write the best program at tournament time control then a different algorithm is better. > >If you think about it - how did Genius get all of its WM titles with its said >blitz optimization ? The blitz optimization is relative to the top programs of today and not relative to the programs of the past. Uri
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