Author: Thoralf Karlsson
Date: 06:14:17 02/14/99
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On February 14, 1999 at 04:16:19, Rajen Gupta wrote: >I wonder whether the SSDF testers will sustain the stamina needed to conduct a >long series of manual games between cm 6000 and other programmes both on a P 90 >and on a P 200 MMX in order to get a proper statistical rating? Probably not.(at >least I don'thave the energy to do such a thing)I am quite certain that after a >few matches it will fizzle out and once again we will not know the true strength >of CM 6000. At least we will reach 100 games, perhaps 150, but certainly not 400-500 games. At the moment we have 42 tournament games which I know about. In this case I feel that it would be more worthwhile for the SSDF >testers to play CM 6000 initially only against P 200 opponents merely because it >would be much more fun to watch the out come with each game.If after the P 200 >matches are over and someone still has the enthusiaism then they could probably >go on to play the P 90 opponents in order to round out the statistics. Your comments show that you don't know how the testwork is done. We don't have a club house or a room somewhere filled with all our PCs, programs and chess computers, where we meet and play games. All games are played in the homes of the individual testers. In most cases the games are played on the PCs which the testers happens to own. At the moment there are 10 persons who possibly could play manual games with CM6000 on P200 MMX. Five of them haven't played any games yet, and I doubt that all of them eventually will play any games. Five testers have so far contributed with between 2 and 14 games each. One tester always plays against SPARC, because he has nothing else to play against. Another tester uses a 486/66 MHz as the opponent. Tony Hedlund, who so far has played the most games, has one P200 MMX and one P90. So of course he uses these machines for his testing. Hans Christian Lykke can play against P200 MMX or P90 and the same goes for myself. Which opponent Hans Christian uses depends on which of the PCs he at the moment needs for other things. That's why he switches between meetings against P200 MMX and P90. So we don't have a real choice between games against P200 MMX or P90. We produce the games which someone has the will and possibility to play. But of course, if someone donated us a lot of money, we could buy new stronger PCs to play against! But it >would be a shame if CM 6000 didn't get the opportunity to slug it out against >F5/,J5, R9/10, H6, Nimzo 98, MXCP on top hardware because of time constraints. To get 100-150 games against somewhat weaker opposition is much better than no games at all. Best regards Thoralf Karlsson > >Rajen gupta
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