Author: Mark Young
Date: 15:39:49 06/27/99
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On June 27, 1999 at 18:11:27, Brett Clark wrote: >There's been a lot of debate on the relevance of engine vs. engine matches >played on the same machine. I'm of the opinion that these matches are >meaningless as far as determining the actual strength of the programs. > >If the Green Bay Packers defeated the Denver Broncos in a game of six man >football, would this mean that the Packers were the better team? I think not. >Only by playing at full strength (11 on 11)could this determination be made. > >Similarly, the only way to tell the true strength of the programs is to play >them on separate, equally configured machines. You can have this opinion, but what data do you base this on. I have played both ways and see nothing strange in my results going for one computer to two computers in the chessbase interface. I am finding the results sounds, and feel that they are accurate representation of how the programs will perform against each other on two computers. I have been able to accurately predict the placement and approx. elo of programs before they show up on the SSDF list with the data generated in this way. I don't think this would be possible if the data was scewed in a big way.
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