Author: Harald Faber
Date: 01:06:10 12/16/98
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On December 15, 1998 at 23:41:50, Kevin Mulloy wrote: > I am in the process of testing MPC7 in a 200 MMX 80 meg RAM machine against >MCP7 in a 450PII 256 meg RAM machine. In the 200, the MCP7 engine calculates >aprox 1,250,000 positions per minute. In the 450, about 2,600,000 positions per >min (slightly more than double). I have adjusted the times accordingly -- I >give the 200 2 min per move and the 450 1 min per move. I thought that this >should be a fairly even match with a slight edge to the 450. After 20 games, >the 200 leads 15-5?? I was not testing this fine program against itself to try >to produce a "winning" machine. I just wanted an easy way to handicap one >machine so that the 200 and the 450 would play fairly even chess when I matched >different programs against Mcp7. I realize that I have a very small sample here >-- could someone advise me on the proper set up that I should be looking for to >even these 2 machines out. Also, If my approach to this problem is OK, how much >bigger should the sample be to give a good indication of strength? Thank you, >Kevin Mulloy In fact there is no alternative than testing without permanent brain but with adjusted time control, in this case 450 gets 40/2h and 200 gets 40/4h. But of course this is not to compare with tournament games on equal hardware.
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