Author: Harald Faber
Date: 02:32:17 11/17/98
Go up one level in this thread
On November 16, 1998 at 11:44:52, Komputer Korner wrote: >>Hi Ed, >>I am not sure to reach you via e-mail so I write it here too: >> >>I have seen strange behaviour in Rebel10. I have AMD-K6-200 and Laptop166MMX. In >>the same position the AMD has a diiferent best move with a different value than >>the 166MMX AT SAME SEARCH DEPTH. How is this possible, any explainations? > >Harald, you should know better. We have had discussions about this phenomenon >many times. There are a whole host of reasons ranging from hash table anomolies >to move ordering, all of which are affected by different times used. Determinism >is an impossiblity in present day chess programs so forget about the idea. >Komputer Korner Hmm. Then s.th. is wrong, either my point of view or the program itself. I always assumed depth=8 is depth=8, no matter which computer is used. Only slower computer should need longer to reach that depth but the result should be the same. I am talking of analysis mode, same explaination?
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.