Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:00:29 09/16/02
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Your inability to replicate results is in no way an indication that the results are not genuine. 1. There is a considerable amount of randomness intentionally built into chess programs. Otherwise, once you found a winning line, you could beat them every time using that line. 2. Every machine and every time control can give different results. On my machine (for instance) Amy and ExChess seem to do much better than on other people's equipment. 3. Inability to reproduce a measurement is not a disproof of the measurement. 4. It is possible to get wildly different results with similar setups because of small, unforseen differences. For example, on a machine with less ram, you might have the disk used as a replacement for memory, making operations literally thousands of times slower than the same machine with more memory. You are welcome to question results. It is another matter to question someone's integrity. Please stop it.
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