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Subject: Re: New result Junior5-Rebel8, SSDF

Author: Detlef Pordzik

Date: 16:47:15 11/23/98

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On November 23, 1998 at 18:54:20, blass uri wrote:

>
>On November 23, 1998 at 18:47:05, Detlef Pordzik wrote:
>
>
>>Do you try this the other way round, too ?
>>REBEL on 200 MMX ? JUNIOR on P 90 ?
>>If yes, that's better,
>>if no, what do you assume, is the worthy of such games, at all ? Using a new
>>prog with newer algorithms, larger book and sure more hash tables - against an
>>elder combattant, maybe with a much smaller, clearly elder book and less hash
>>tables ?
>>Not to speak of the PC version. I don't mind, if you have these 2, but it would
>>be only fair to change machine every xyz games, wouldn't it ?
>>Note : I don't mean you - in person - but shouldn't you be aware, that this kind
>>of ridiculius setups influence the ELO ranking - in a missleading way ?
>
>It is the usual way in the ssdf
>This is the reason that in the rating we have Junior5(p200) and Rebel8(p90)
>New programs always get better hardware in the ssdf games and they do not hide
>it.
>
>Uri

Which I consider as one of the major problems itself.
BTW - I never wrote, you'd " hide " something, did I ?



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