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Subject: Re: 99 Summer update

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:39:50 08/23/99

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On August 23, 1999 at 07:36:21, Shep wrote:

>On August 23, 1999 at 02:10:25, Didzis Cirulis wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>23.08.99. Hiarcs is making attempts to get closer to the top. But so does the
>>Shredder too!:
>>Hiarcs 7.32 - Genius 6       1.5 - 0.5
>>Hiarcs 7.32 - Shredder 2.0   0.5 - 1.5
>>Hiarcs 7.32 - CM 6666        2 - 0
>
>Hehe, sometimes I think that the laws of Nature in my own lab are something
>completely different from anywhere else in the world. :)
>CM 6666 (just like 5555 before) seems to do significantly better on my systems
>than on anybody else's. ;-(
>
>After beating Shredder 3, my CM 6666 test score is now 11:4 against top
>opposition (60/game on PIII-550).
>
>I think I will be spending the rest of the month flipping a coin to see if heads
>fall significantly more often than tails... ;-))
>
>---
>Shep


Another detail, one that hardly anybody pays any attention to:  Chess programs
are very finely tuned 'animals'.  If you change anything, you might change a
_lot_. IE your CM6666 might be perfect for CM playing on your hardware, against
the opponents you use playing on your hardware.  Speed up or slow down the
hardware and the results can change significantly...  more than you would think.

It is not impossible to believe that your setting are perfect for your speed
hardware, but that they might be worse on other hardware...  This used to cause
me a lot of grief, tuning on one machine(Cray Blitz) but playing on something a
lot faster...



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