Author: Mike S.
Date: 11:42:18 04/29/03
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On April 29, 2003 at 13:27:33, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On April 29, 2003 at 12:19:16, Günther Simon wrote: > >>On April 29, 2003 at 11:38:06, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Instead of using an Athlon 1200 GHz the SSDF team can save time by testing at >>>half the time control speed by simply upgrading their 2 years old processors to >>>an XP 2400+ or even an XP 3000+. They would save twice the time that it take >>>them to test 40 games by cutting the time control to half or instead of using >>>"40/7200:20/3600:20/3600"] they can start using "40/3600:20/1800:20/1800"] >>every year the same argument...but who buys the machines? >For the sake of saving time, I would say the same person who gave the money to >upgrade from K6-500 MHz to AMD Athlon 1200 GHz could do it again. But in reality >they can upgrade them cheap, instead of buying them new. Tests have shown that *match results are different* with different time controls, more than with different hardware and the same time controls. IOW, match results seem to depend much more on the time controls than on the hardware speed (thinking of a reasonable bandwidth of course). Which means, SSDF *cannot* simply reduce the thinking time and still produce 100% comparable results. Btw. if they would have followed that idea, they'd probably run bullet matches today :o)) The list was started, when clock rates were one digit numbers... They could save testing time by using more computers at the same time. But time is money :o) Regards, M.Scheidl
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