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Subject: Re: Important: Never use WB-adapter of May 2001 with Shredder5 under CB-GUI

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:42:53 09/16/01

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On September 17, 2001 at 02:31:44, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On September 17, 2001 at 01:22:41, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 17, 2001 at 00:17:12, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On September 16, 2001 at 17:35:42, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 16, 2001 at 17:06:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>A naive question: why don't you just assume that The King is stronger than
>>>>>Shredder instead of calling for some obscure reason related to time controls?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    Christophe
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>He used another ( probably somehow broken) adapter before and got a 17-3 result
>>>>for TheKing. Now with a working adapter he gets more realistic results.
>>>>
>>>>He didn't suggest that either engine is any stronger I think.
>>>>
>>>>There is no reference to timecontrol at all - it's simply about some broken
>>>>Chessbase WinBoard adapter ( and that one definitely really is quite broken ).
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>pete
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"These results look very realistic since Shredder5 does not feel comfortabel on
>>>the slow hardware."
>>>
>>>This is a direct reference to some hypothetic difference in performance
>>>depending on the speed of the computer (which is the same as saying that the
>>>programs perform differently depending on the time controls).
>>
>>It is not the same because it is possible that Shredder earns more speed
>>relative to the king from fast hardware.
>>
>>I did not check it but I know that there are programs that earn more speed from
>>fast hardware.
>>
>>I know that gandalf feels better on fast hardware relative to Junior not because
>>of the time control but because it earns more speed from the fast hardware.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>
>Using time controls twice as long is the same as doubling the computer speed.
>
>Faster hardware or longer time controls, that's the same.
>
>
>    Christophe

The problem is that when Junior become twice faster  thanks to better hardware
Gandalf becomes 3 times faster.

These are not the exact numbers but this is the idea.

Uri



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