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Subject: Re: A surprised weakness of Shredder 9 (Endgame) !

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 08:36:20 11/16/05

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On November 16, 2005 at 11:10:15, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 16, 2005 at 10:09:45, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>On November 16, 2005 at 07:33:55, Ernst Walet wrote:
>>
>>>You're running on ancient hardware.
>>
>><-- snip -->
>>
>>I personally think that slow computers are better suited to compare engines. On
>>my (much too fast!) P4-2.8 machine several engines sometimes solve a problem in
>>0 seconds each.
>
>No engine can solve a problem in 0 seconds
>I guess that one solve it in 0.2 second and another solve it in 0.4 seconds
>and it is still easy to compare 0.2 and 0.4.
>
>If the interface does not give you times like that then the problem is the
>interface and not the computers.
>
>When I run movei in console mode I get the exact time per solution in units of
>0.01 second.
>
>Uri

You're right, Uri. I use Chessbase's GUI, and the analysis results are rounded
to the nearest second. Maybe we should make an improvement suggestion for Fritz
10.



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