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Subject: Re: Wrong Reasoning by Hyatt

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:30:50 09/18/05

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On September 18, 2005 at 07:04:36, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>On September 17, 2005 at 21:51:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 17, 2005 at 17:10:00, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>>
>>>On September 17, 2005 at 13:42:07, Albert Silver wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 17, 2005 at 10:04:32, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hyatt has claimed many times that a Nodes Per Second Factor of one thousand
>>>>>times would not be overcome by the program with the less Nodes per second.In
>>>>>this Experiment it was shown conclusively that this is false .Although I played
>>>>>4 games ,I do not think the result would have been different if I had played a
>>>>>hundred more.Time Control 40 MOVES IN 2 HOURS followed by sudden death in 1
>>>>>hour.Hardware: GNU CHESS 4.11 a program from 1996 ran a celeron 1.8 Gig machine
>>>>>;Chess Tiger on Palm ran on the Palm Tungten E.NODES PER SECOND:ON THE
>>>>>AVERAGE:CHESSTIGER ON PALM 500 per second ,GNU CHESS 4.11 500000 per second on
>>>>>the celeron 1.8 Gig.1000X DIFFERENCE.Hyatt and some other people have always
>>>>>argued about the supremecy of DeepBlue based on its speed.I think these days
>>>>>these arguments are false;and Speed does not mean as much as it used to.Deep
>>>>>blue would be crushed by todays program's.A lot of STRENGTH is EVALUATION
>>>>>FUNCTION.Take a look at these games:
>>>>>Match ended in 2-2 draw.
>>>>
>>>>The idea of testing this is certainly interesting but the conditions seem rather
>>>>dubious IMHO. For one thing, 4 games really is COMPLETELY meaningless, andwith
>>>>all due respect to claim you don't think the result could have been different
>>>>shows how much you don't understand this.
>>>>
>>>>BTW, does Tiger really only get 500 nodes per second on your Palm? That seems
>>>>ridiculously low. I don't have Tiger, nor a Palm for that matter, but on my Dell
>>>>Pocket PC at 624MHz, I get about 50,000 nps on average for Fruit 2.1.
>>>>
>>>>Note that if one is to believe the results of Hiarcs site
>>>>(http://www.hiarcs.com/phresults.htm), Tiger on the Palm has inordinately bad
>>>>results (they claim it plays over 400 points worse than Hiarcs on identical
>>>>hardware, which is HUGE), so perhaps it isn't the ideal choice.
>>>>
>>>>                                        Albert
>>>Yes indeed Tiger does get 500 Nps on the palm Tungsten E.Note that it is Hyatt's
>>>claim that I am disproving.According to him a NPS of 1000X factor would be
>>>impossible to overcome even in 4 games
>>
>>
>>No, what you are disproving is a false statement you are making.  Since I never
>>said what you claim, it would be just a bit difficult to disprove it, since it
>>was never said.
>>
>>Grow up or try again...
>What???  you have made this remark many times.Of course due to the volume of
>your remarks I cant pin point the exact time and day.


You can't point it out because I didn't say that.

Again, whenever you want to try a 1000:1 handicap match using the program of
your choice vs Crafty, step right up...  But none of this "lets take program X,
then remove features Y and Z and use that."



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