Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 00:22:31 01/29/04
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Hi Thorsten, >> Thanks for your reply. I am hoping since the platform is the same for all >> engines, that all results are relative. It still gives me an indication on >> my system how strong they are against each other. > sorry. but here you are wrong. No, he isn't. > if you throw a good car out of a plane and a bad car out of a plane both cars > will crash on the ground and be destroyed. this example is idiotic -> can we at least agree that the engines play on HIS computer also chess ? He does not test something totally different. He just tests with another environment. In your case you do not test how the cars drive you test how good they can fly... which is senseless because they are not created to fly. But of course it makes sense to test cars how well they are doing at a speed of say 30 miles per hour or 150 miles per hour... Everybody is doing that. You may understand the difference ? Besides: you might not be aware of the facts, but still MANY persons have PCs like this PIII/450 - I am quite sure that more versions of Fritz, Shredder or whatever run on such hardware then on fast comps with a speed above 2.0 GHz. That is something we should not forget while testing... And those people also analyse their games. And not with 3 minutes per position, of course. > don't see my critic destructive. see it constructive. it is only destructive -> you declare his tests as nonsense... but they make sense - as I said, the engines still play chess. It would be even enough if they only make sense to him... besides -> you remember that Kasparov lost once against Genius on P90 ? With 25' minutes per side ? This is nearly exactly the compareable timecontrol to the one he used on his faster hardware... Did Genius play senseless in those games ? Was it not able to find decent moves ?Was Kasparov so weak ??? Greets, Thomas
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