Author: Jim Bodkins
Date: 22:02:23 06/04/03
I have noticed a group of people that seems to vicariously play through their engines. I have actually had people say to me that the speed of the system was irrelevant. (And that if I had been around long enough I would have known that. SaltyBalls - who not surprisingly has one of the faster systems). My intent at playchess is to "tweak" a personality of theking. (At least I would like to finish that). Playing such a random collection of systems - many of which are not identified in terms of hardware - makes that difficult. It occured to me that it should be possible to define competition categories based upon hardware performance. (Or allow formulas based upon hardware performance). If the engines had a standard set of quick tests that did a thumbnail of that systems performance and sent that to the other engine (exchange) in order to qualify the game, it would help provide meaningfull engine match results. (Rather than what happens now. The same old engine but runnng on a dual 3gig xeon playing a P4 1.4 gig. Meaningless). Any thoughts from the engine programmers? Call it a performance Gnomon. It could be a polynomial/vector of sorts with the coefficients being values for standard tests. I just love it when I see 1200 kN/s on a system that is identified as a Pentium 300 laptop. :)
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