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Subject: Re: Forget about all Computer-Computer matches

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 07:53:50 09/27/99

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On September 26, 1999 at 21:06:08, Thorsten Czub wrote:
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>i guess today the ranking looks ok.
>i don't understand why tiger is a weak program :-))))
>but if they would test it on 450 mhz machines they would see HOW
>strong it is.
>why do these guys always INFLUENCE the statistics ?
>i mean: i trust the numbers or not.
>saying: tiger is weak, i don't give it the 450 machines and instead
>test it on p90 !!!!!! (5 times slower !!!!)

Actually tiger is the strongest ( or more correct: Has the higest rating for a
program running on a P90 )program on a P90 ever according to SSDF chairman
Thoralf K!
I think most people with interest in computer chess knows that this meens Tiger
is pretty strong!

Torstein




>is not really interesting to us, or ?
>we want to know how strong tiger is in relation to the 450 Mhz machines.
>these are some critics.
>
>despite these few points (maybe i have forgotten some) the list looks
>very ok.
>i do often use it myself.
>of course they should have never allowed cb this special arrangement they
>did.
>this was not ok.
>it was against the common sense.
>but - this is a private especially swedish club (foreigners not allowed!!!)
>and it is their affair.
>my main critic is that the they avoke a kind of scientific outlook they
>cannot fullfill in real.
>so people misuse their list.
>use the gaps within the system.
>this is not fair in my opinion.



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