Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 21:02:26 09/12/03
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On September 12, 2003 at 12:56:56, Bob Durrett wrote: [snip] >On a more serious note, I am a USER of chess software as I have said here many >times. Currently, I am embroiled in doing a comparison of the top engines >[Shredder 7.0.4, Tiger 15, Deep Junior 8 (used on a single processor PC), Fritz >8, and Crafty 19.03.] This comparison is from a USER PERSPECTIVE. In each >case, I am using the engine as an analysis engine running under Chessbase 8 so >that differences in the native GUIs are transparent. As a user, more or less the only thing you can really use to get an objective comparison is the moves/games it plays, the more numbers of moves/games the better. You can basically ignore all the rest. ;) Comparing depth, NPS, max depth, whatever is like comparing different CPUs based on MHz or colour. Maybe next year all programs will have a new number which shows how many times the engines staggered over the binary pattern 101010 (which is decimal 42) during the search. YAMN (yet another meaninsless number) when it comes to comparing different engines. You will get a result, but it's just something - which could be the truth or not. But then you could also just guess wildly. Sargon
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