Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:51:22 10/15/03
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On October 15, 2003 at 11:11:34, Peter Skinner wrote: >On October 15, 2003 at 10:23:56, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>it is as old as computerchess, we were able to measure it in the old times >>of dedicated chess computers, and it has IMO not changed on the PC: >> >>chess programs do profit from time DIFFERENT. >> >>some are better on fast levels. others are better on slow time controls. >> >>As far as i remember there are only a few people outside believing that >>the programs strength is linear increasing function concerning time controls / >>cpu-speed. > >In Chess Tiger's case I have matched it against itself using two different sets >of hardware to see how well it scaled. > >I used a PIII 900 vs a PIV 2.6 Ghz. The match of 200 blitz games ended in a dead >draw. I suspect that your PIV2.6Ghz has a problem otherwise your post does not make sense. Maybe you run another application together with tiger in the PIV 2.6ghz. Did you compare nodes per seconds? Thorsten reply does not make sense because every program earn much from speed when the hardware is significantly faster. Uri
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