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Subject: Re: ?

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 11:02:59 01/29/04

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On January 29, 2004 at 09:59:00, George Tsavdaris wrote:

> Athough i 100% agree that the games have no big value, your above logic is
>wrong. Imagine what a person in 2055 would say about the matches we play now
>at 40'/40 (long time control). He would say: "People of 2004 were really
>funny, they play 40'/40 on PIV-3GHz, that means 8 seconds for the whole game
>on our Pentium-XLI 74 PHz".
> I say again you are right, but the above logic is wrong.

the machines i am talking about are NORMAL today !
of course our pc's will be old in a few years. and our results.
but don't forget that the programs are tuned on TODAYS PC's.

if you want to make a chess program strong, you need to tune it on todays
hardware. the programmer is IMO not interested how his program plays on 286
hardware.

he never tested this.
and he cannot guaranty what will happen.

it is IMO even weaker to make conclusions from this.
how can you conclude from such a data ?




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