Author: Jim Bodkins
Date: 22:31:01 06/04/03
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On June 05, 2003 at 01:02:23, Jim Bodkins wrote: >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. :) The performance gnomon could be something like crafty's bench() function for example.
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