Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 14:29:16 09/08/03
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On September 08, 2003 at 15:29:58, Bruce A Rhoades wrote: > How can these chess program ratings have any meaning if the programs are >running on different computers having different capability? I don't understand. I have read the other posts, and I believe your question is something like this: How come they play for example Fritz 7.0 (1200Mhz Athlon) vs Junior 7.0 (K6-2 350mhz). Surely this is unfair. Lets say you have an established rating for Junior 7.0 and want to find the strength of Fritz 7.0. Then the hardware which Fritz runs on is quite unimportant, since you can calculate the rating performance of Fritz from the score of the match and Junior 7.0's rating. After a lot of games you will have a rating for Fritz 7.0 for the hardware 1200Mhz Athlon. Maybe you have a 2400+ Athlon, which is 67% faster. Then you know that Fritz on your machine will be a bit stronger, you don't know how much though. From experience, maybe 10-40 ELO points more. If I have got your question all wrong, I apologize ! Martin.
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