Author: blass uri
Date: 02:31:01 06/01/98
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On June 01, 1998 at 02:34:20, Komputer Korner wrote: >>Anyway, a 23% speed increase from a 8x hash table size increase does not >>give you many elo points. Assuming that doubling your speed gives you 70 >>elo points (in fact it is less than that), a 23% speed increase could >>give you no more than 20 elo points. >> >>I insist: if the SSDF had given Fritz 8x more memory than to the other >>programs, the advantage for Fritz could be NO MORE THAN 20 elo points. >> >>And how much hash table has been given Fritz? Twice the amount of other >>programs? So it could be a 5 elo points advantage??? What a big deal! >>Does it justify the amount of posts on the subject??? >> >>So this should terminate right now any claim about such an unfair >>advantage the SSDF has given to Fritz with their slightly bigger hash >>tables. >> >> >> Christophe > > >I don't understand the hash argument anyway, because SSDF did not limit >the other programs. The problems of the other programs are that they >have a maximum hash size that is inherent in the program itself. Fritz 5 >does not have this limit so why should it be limited? If the consumer >wants to buy 256 Mb of RAM and his machine will take it and Fritz will >use it then why not test with that? The SSDF is not about low end >systems. It is about being the best that is commercially available. The hash argument is that the other programs did not run on the same hardware. SSDF did not use pentium 200MMX with 64Mbytes Memory to test other top programs but Pentium 200MMX with less RAM If other top programs used the maximum hash size that is inherent in them it is not important but I think it is not the case. The unfair adventage did not help fritz5 much so probably fritz5 deserved to be number 1 in the ssdf List (it does not say fritz5 is number 1 because the list does not have other top programs like Junior4.6) fritz5 has another unfair adventage that the autoplayer they use is not public because they want to continue to be number 1 by unfair means (they can learn their opponents when the opponents cannot learn them). Uri
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