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

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:22:34 06/18/02

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On June 15, 2002 at 18:13:12, Peter Berger wrote:

>On June 15, 2002 at 09:04:28, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Do these tests provide any information regarding the subject question?
>>
>>Bob D.
>>
>
>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


How about 50% "a" and 50% "e"?



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