Author: Jonas Bylund
Date: 05:19:35 11/25/03
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On November 25, 2003 at 08:01:48, Earl Fuller wrote: >It would appear that Brutus has a slight hardware advantage. So, in order to >determine which program is really the strongest there would have to be a match >with compatible hardware. Don't you think ? We all know that Shredder, Fritz, >just to name two programs have always been at the top. With Shredders ssdf >rating of 2812 (and Firitz) it's hard to believe that they would be crushed in a >match set of games against any human or program. Losing one or a couple of games >doesn't mean much. In a match of say, 20 games, that may show which program is >really the strongest, if they have compatible hardware! Remember, when your >that strong, their would be alot of draws, so the match would have to be a long >one! >Earl Diep has the hardware advantage, whereas if Brutus has a slight advantage over Deep Junior, Deep Fritz and Shredder is not sure, but it seems to have the advantage of not losing speed when knowledge is added to the program due to the nature of FPGA. The nature of the WCCC allows different hardware in the same category and from that setup the strongest program will win, wether it truly reflects who is best from a purely software point of view is uncertain. If we said all programs should run on even hardware it wouldn't matter what the clockspeed was, thus we could see them all run on 200 Mhz pentiums, and the quality of play would suffer greatly. Just like in chess where you from a positional point of view, can't move a piece without leaving weaknesses behind, this is just one setup which has it's strenght's and it's weaknesses. Regards Jonas
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