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Subject: Re: SSDF oddity

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:19:36 10/04/01

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On October 04, 2001 at 15:15:36, Roy Eassa wrote:

>>      THE SSDF RATING LIST 2001-10-02   81185 games played by  226 computers
>>                                           Rating   +     -  Games   Won  Oppo
>>                                           ------  ---   --- -----   ---  ----
>>   1 Deep Fritz 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz        2726   55   -51   182   65%  2618
>>   2 Gambit Tiger 2.0  256MB Athlon 1200     2720   50   -48   205   59%  2653
>>   3 Chess Tiger 14.0 CB 256MB Athlon 1200   2703   49   -46   230   65%  2592
>>   4 Shredder 5.32  256MB Athlon 1200        2699   50   -47   222   67%  2577
>>   5 Junior 7.0  256MB  Athlon 1200          2679   61   -59   140   59%  2615
>>   6 Deep Fritz  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2654   27   -26   731   63%  2560
>>   7 Gandalf 4.32h  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz    2653   68   -63   119   61%  2574
>>   8 Gambit Tiger 2.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz    2640   30   -29   592   66%  2521
>>   9 Chess Tiger 14.0 CB 128MB K6-2 450 MHz  2632   32   -30   537   66%  2518
>>  10 Junior 7.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2624   45   -42   271   65%  2518
>>  11 Fritz 6.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz           2623   23   -23   968   64%  2521
>>  12 Shredder 5.0  128MB  K6-2 450 MHz       2601   24   -23   928   63%  2509
>>  13 Shredder 5.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz       2600   36   -34   409   61%  2517
>
>
>Interesting that on the faster PC, Shredder 5.32 outrates Junior 7 by 20 points,
>whereas on the slower hardware Junior 7 outrates Shredder 5.32 by 24 points.  (I
>tend to believe the latter more.)

Makes perfect sense to me.  On the WMCCC contests, Shredder always gets the
hottest hardware available, and smokes the competition.  In other words, good
chance that the algorithm is slightly superior, so that as speed increases
O(f(n)) takes over.



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