Author: blass uri
Date: 23:47:19 06/08/98
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On June 09, 1998 at 00:55:16, Christophe Theron wrote: >On June 08, 1998 at 18:42:07, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>Thanks for all compliments. One thing I like to do on CCL is to play >>an NPS tournament in the tradition of the Crafty-Rebel event. This time >>with more games and not such a huge time difference, say factor 10. >> >>To some extend it will reveal something what you may expect from faster >>hardware the coming years and if speed is decisive. Is it? :) >> >>Say you play the NPS tournament, Program_X gets 4:30 per move, >>Program_Y gets 45:00 per move, both programs with permanent brain off. >>All six programs will play one game against each other. The program >>with 4:30 per move has always white otherwise the NPS tournament will >>take too long. >> >>The paring then would be: >> >>G5 - M7 N98 - H6 S2 - R9 >>M7 - G5 H6 - N98 R9 - S2 >>G5 - N98 R9 - H6 S2 - M7 >>N98 - G5 H6 - R9 M7 - S2 >>G5 - H6 S2 - N98 R9 - M7 >>H6 - G5 N98 - S2 M7 - R9 >>G5 - R9 S2 - H6 M7 - N98 >>R9 - G5 H6 - S2 N98 - M7 >>G5 - S2 R9 - N98 M7 - H6 >>S2 - G5 N98 - R9 H6 - M7 >> >>Say one game takes 60 hours = 2.5 days. 30 games will take 75 days. >>Using 2 autoplayer pairs the total NPS tournament would take 30-40 >>days which looks pretty acceptable to me. >> >>Interesting enough? >> >>Alternatives? >> >>Or better play the normal (10 game) 40/2:00 matches? >> >>- Ed - > >Sorry Ed, I think this is a complete waste of time. > >But maybe this has to be done one time, just to verify that we learn >nothing from such matches, and then definitely throw away such ideas. > >Please keep on doing the good work on normal 40/2:00. > > > Christophe I want to know which program earns most from time so I do not think it is a waste of time. it is interesting to see what I may expect from faster hardware we do not know it now so we learn something from such matches. Uri
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