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Subject: Re: Details on the matches Tiger vs Diep and Tiger vs Crafty?

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 11:24:40 12/22/99

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On December 22, 1999 at 13:53:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 22, 1999 at 11:26:49, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On December 22, 1999 at 09:34:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On December 22, 1999 at 08:40:36, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>>I read a few posts back that some programmers challenged each other's programs.
>>>>I was wondering if the people involved could post the details:
>>>>
>>>>1.  How many games for each match?  Any tie breakers in case of a tie?
>>>>2.  What will the time control be?
>>>>3.  What hardware will be used and which version of the program will be used?
>>>>4.  Where will the games be played (ICC, FICS?) and where will the results be
>>>>posted (CCC, rgcc?).
>>>>5.  When will the matches start?
>>>>6.  Who will be the arbiter?
>>>>
>>>>BTW, the trash-talk is pretty entertaining, if a bit off-topic, but I don't mind
>>>>it.  I'm easily amused.
>>>>
>>>>Baldo.
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't play 'formal matches'.  However, "shadow4" wants to play a 6 game
>>>match (30 30 time control) and then report the results here.  Crafty will
>>>be on a quad xeon.  I am not sure what shadow4 is using.
>>
>>
>>Just for information, I am not behind Shadow4. I have no idea who he is.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>
>That is why I don't bother reporting much about the results of such matches
>here.  He claims to be using Tiger-12.  Whether he is or not is anybody's guess.
>Ditto for hardware claims.  I see more 'fakery' about hardware than any other
>single item.  Seems to make some feel good to say they have a P5/166 when they
>really have a PIII/700.  This has been going on around the servers for years.
>And the funny thing is, it is _not_ the program authors that are doing this, it
>is end users that buy a program, buy the computer, and then claim it is much
>slower than it really is.  I have never understood exactly why.  But we have
>seen _many_ cases.  I got tired enough that I (for a while) said crafty was
>running on a 286/12mhz machine, but enough took me serious that I corrected
>it.  :)
>
>Bob

:))

Alessandro



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