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Subject: Re: Big Programs Run Badly on Small Computers?

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 15:13:12 06/15/02

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On June 15, 2002 at 09:04:28, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

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>Do these tests provide any information regarding the subject question?
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>Bob D.
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No, they don't. The tests have a different purpose, it is about trying to get an
idea of the strength of Chess Tiger for the Palm with blitz matches against
other chessengines on (much) faster hardware. I have put a longer explanation in
my answer to Thorsten Czub about the goals and results - but don't forget: above
all it's fun to do them :-).

It is an odd testresult - possible explanations IMHO:

a.) Genius is much stronger than expected.
b.) Tiger is weaker than expected.
c.) There is a flaw in the setup of the engines.
d.) There is a flaw in the setup of the experiment.
e.) It's simply one very unlikely single result that is unlikely but possible
and the results will change with more games.

My money is on e.) currently.

Peter



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