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Subject: Re: Look at the games

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 22:09:47 01/13/02

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On January 11, 2002 at 06:38:46, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 11, 2002 at 01:12:56, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On January 10, 2002 at 17:13:05, robert flesher wrote:
>>
>>>I have played now 100+ game against Tiger and Gambit tiger! The over all score
>>>favour's Gandalf Slightly. So i believe that it will make top 3 with easy.
>>>People draw conclusion after 10 games.
>>
>>I draw conclusions after 50-100 games. It is enough if you take a look at the
>>games. At the moment (no conclusion) it does not look very good for Gadnalf in
>>my test, 2.5-7.5 vs. Shredder 6 and 2.5-7.5 vs. Fritz 7a.
>
>It is possible that one of the reasons is that gandalf suffers from your
>hardware.
>I know that gandalf is one of the programs that earn more speed from faster CPU.
>

This is nonsense and only to explain the bad results. This "Program A needs fast
hardware" is rubbish since years and never has been true.

>I remember that at least Gandalf4.32h is one of the programs that earns more
>from faster hardware.

Who proved that, how/based on what? I have never seen that.

>That Gandalf may be about 5 times slower than Junior in nodes per second when
>you use slow hardware
>and only 2-3 times slower than Junior in nodes per seconds when you use fast
>hardware.

This is against every logic. Could you explain that to me?

>I am not sure about the exact number and it is only the idea.
>
>Uri




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