Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 05:52:44 09/13/03
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On September 13, 2003 at 00:02:26, Daniel Clausen wrote: >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 I guess I want more than that. Bob D.
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