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Subject: Re: Bad testing protocol Re: Some tough positions analyzed by Rybka ...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:22:03 12/20/05

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On December 20, 2005 at 14:39:49, Ernest Bonnem wrote:

>Using an automatic testing of test-suites with Rybka will only give you an
>approximation for the results.
>The only way to obtain reproducible results (until Vas corrects that small bug)
>is to exit the engine and launch it again after each position test!
>You can check that easily for yourself...
>
>So Mike may try as hard as he can, he will never get your results.

So there is some element of randomness due to a hash bug.  Even at that, Rybka
solves more of these positions than other engines do.

>By the way, saying that your A64 2.2GHz is only 67 % as fast as Mike's machine
>(1.8GHz Opteron) seems a bit harsh!

That is the ratio when he as a 64 bit OS and I don't.



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