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Subject: Re: Which is the one with the correct ratings?

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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