Author: Chris Taylor
Date: 10:50:06 11/25/04
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On November 25, 2004 at 12:49:07, Fernando Villegas wrote: >If you take a look at stuff offered in COMPUTER CHESS & COMPUTER BRIDGE and you >compare it with the same stuff kept in ICD, you will see great differences >according how they evaluate the strenght of dedicated computers. Always ICD >gives them a lot lower rating, but for the other side the owner of the english >shop is a known guy of the community, author of opennning books for some >programs and besides he profeses "christianity", so how we could believe is is >just cheating? In other words, we have not here a case of "this guy say the >truth and the other one lie". One of them or both is or are making the wrong >measures. I tend to put my faith in the side of ICD, but, who know if they are >too much pesimistic due to bad experiencs in the beginnings of time? >This is not just an academic problem as much I have been wavering before >purchasing a new dedicated unit due precisely to that discrepance. If any of >you knows of a third party to confront the data, please let me know. >fernand I am in England, in your country if you were to play the exact same games. I would be amazed if we had identical results. This assuming identical computers. In the case of dedicated comps there should be no difference. I would wager large amounts of cash that we would see results that were not the same! Neither side is lying, both are accurate. Strange spin eh? Chris
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