Author: KarinsDad
Date: 14:36:35 01/06/99
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On January 06, 1999 at 16:11:16, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > I am not sure about what means that a program is stronger (or weaker) than >other program. > I see the program, its settings and the machine it is playing on as a single >playing entity (not to forget that also at different time controls we can get >very different results). > For me "Program X with such and such settings running on machine A is stronger >than program Y with some settings running on machine B at a certain time >control" is a meaningful statement; but "program X is stronger than program Y" >is not. If you use the phrase "program X is stronger than program Y", wouldn't you by default have to assume comparable settings and comparable environments (OS as well as hardware)? Also, some programs are so much "stronger" than others that unless you limit them in some way (such as turning off processing while the opponent moves, or limiting the depth of the search), they will still beat the "weaker" program in general while running on their minimal configuration while the weaker program runs on a much more powerful configuration. While technically correct in your phraseology, this is merely a matter of semantics. :) KarinsDad
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