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Subject: Re: Symbolic

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 23:27:34 12/02/03

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On December 02, 2003 at 09:44:59, Steven Edwards wrote:

>On December 02, 2003 at 09:30:25, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>On December 02, 2003 at 08:43:53, Steven Edwards wrote:
>>>On December 02, 2003 at 08:09:18, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:
>>>>On December 02, 2003 at 07:44:01, Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>>>Strength:
>>>
>>>    Solves 298/300 WAC (242/300 WAC in under 1 second each)
>>
>>298/300 in how much time?  What hardware?  242/300 at 1 second/position
>>seems a bit low, unless you use a slow computer.  My latest version gets
>>289/300 at 1 second/position when running on a PIV 2.4 GHz.
>
>Testing is done on a variety of platforms; the fastest is a dual 1 GHz G4.
>
>As Symbolic is still far from complete, there's little point in comparing its
>test suite results except with earlier versions.

Most chess programs are far from complete.
If you're going to put up test suite results as a meaure of strength, its only
reasonable to include the hardware used.



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