Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:45:07 02/21/99
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On February 21, 1999 at 14:20:54, Thoralf Karlsson wrote: >New programs are (since two years ago) always tested on Pentium MMX 200 MHz. >They are played against earlier tested programs, with established ratings, on >either P200 MMX or P90. Which hardware a tester plays against depends on which >hardware he happens to own. If SSDF had money to spend on hardware, we would >have helped some of the testers to upgrade from P90 to P200 MMX. > >If you only used identical hardware in the testing, you would have to start a >new rating list every 2½ year or so at the time when you began to use faster >hardware. To start, I'm not a SSDF-hater, and I respect the effort that you folks have put into this for these many years. I think that trying to make an honest rating list is an interesting and perhaps difficult problem. Doing the games on uniform hardware would require a major financial investment on someone's part, and since I don't volunteer for this I would not suggest it. I am worried that without continuing to include computer-human games in the mix, that the rating list will get artificially stretched out. I'm concerned that the rating point delta between A on a 200 and B on a 90 would be greater than you would see if you played a match between A on a 200 and human C, and B on a 90 and human C. bruce
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