Author: Hans Christian Lykke
Date: 23:05:07 05/30/99
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On May 30, 1999 at 16:18:32, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote: > >On May 30, 1999 at 14:26:51, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On May 30, 1999 at 14:23:19, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >> >>>Hi Mel, >>> here it goes a fragment of a post by Dr. Hyatt you are constantly referring in >>>the thread about SSDF testing: >>> >>>---------------------------------------------- >>>On May 27, 1999 at 15:51:59, Prakash Das wrote: >>> >>>>Well, I still don't understand the point of this "world championship" then. Sure >>>>, you can call it "hey, if nothing it will be fun", a "test of systems", etc. >>>>But what are exactly is this exercise trying to prove? If program A on hardware >>>>B, beats program D on hardware E - does that say much about A compared to B? >>>>This belies the principles of science - you have to have a uniform platform >>>>for all participants to make any kind of judgement. >>> >>> >>>I don't understand what you don't understand. This is an "open" competition. >>>Anything is allowed. Any sort of hardware and software combination that can >>>play chess. It has _always_ been that way. It will always be that way. The >>>question being asked is "what is the strongest electronic chessplayer on the >>>planet?" Not "what is the strongest program?" Or "Who is best on equal >>>hardware?" or anything else... >>> >>>---------------------------------------------- >>> >>> As you can see, you were attributing to Dr. Hyatt words by Prakash Das. >>>José. >> >> I forgot to add that this is taken from message number 53426. >>José. > >The fact I used the wrong author does not change my position on this issue. In >fact, I don't agree that the question is not "what is the strongest program'? >After all, when people look at ratings, reviews, etc., what do you think they >want to know? I believe people want to know WHAT IS THE STRONGEST PROGRAM. The >ONLY way to make a proper judgement on that issue is to compare A against B on >equal hardware. For your information, the author of the post to which I first >responded - Hiarcs vs. Nimzo - said I was CORRECT in what I said about comparing >programs with equal hardware. The problem is as was stated by him was that they >haven't the resources to do it that way! Not that I was wrong!!! It´s not only about resources. When we started to play on P200MMX we had to play against programs which had a know rating on P90, to get a rating for the programs on P200MMX!!! So, you are wrong. And now we are starting to play on K6-2 450 Mhz 128MB - Those programs we have to play against programs on P200MMX etc. until they have a rating on K6-2. Then we can start playing K6-2 against K6-2 Venlig hilsen Hans Christian Lykke > >Furthermore, Shep's site is where you'll find tournaments where programs ARE RUN >ON EQUAL HARDWARE. > >If you like to see testing done with program against program on unequal hardware >- have a nice day! > >Mel
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