Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:23:58 05/29/99
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On May 29, 1999 at 18:01:17, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote: > >Hello Dave > >For your information, at Shep's site tournaments are held with all software >played on the SAME hardware at 40/2. I respect those results more than what >you're talking about. This is my opinion and you can disagree. You can decide >for yourself which method of testing is relevant to obtaining the best >information available.By the way, he also tested Hiarcs 6 and many, many other >programs against each other in a realistic tournament environment. > >Regards, >Mel I don't have a problem with Shep's testing. I don't give the same weight to his results as I do to the roughly 60000 tournament-length games that the SSDF has played over the years, but I don't think Shep will have any hard feelings about that. Shep is comparing software on a particular platform. SSDF is comparing a software and hardware combination. Your opinion is that the latter is not very useful. Oh well, you're free to think that. Different programs improve in strength at different rates as hardware improves. Some algorithmic changes that improve software running on a K2-450 might well make it play worse on a 486/66. You can't demonstrate this phenomenon if your testing is confined to one platform, but it is there all the same. Dave
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