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Subject: Re: I just don't get this ...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:47:42 01/03/04

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On January 03, 2004 at 20:53:39, Rick Rice wrote:

>Person A posts a message saying Ruffian 2.0 is very dissapointing, with the
>results to back it up. This is followed by a second post which basically says
>that Ruffian 2.0 rocks with some results to back it up. Are these programs
>really so time and hardware sensitive, so as to show varying results on
>different CPUs/time controls?
>
>Ideal solution would be for SSDF to have one massive board with one CPU and
>memory for each program (equal CPU and mem for all the progs on its list) and
>some way to automate the play of these programs against each other..... on
>different time controls such as regular, blitz etc. Just wishful thinking for
>the future, but it would eliminate the multiple and varying results.
>
>Cheers,
>Rick


You can flip a coin 10 times and get 7 heads and say "this coin produces
more heads than tails."  Give it to someone else and you might get 7 tails.

You have to run a _lot_ of tests before you conclude something...



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