Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:32:59 12/31/99
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On December 31, 1999 at 08:15:27, John Warfield wrote: >On December 31, 1999 at 04:56:10, blass uri wrote: > >>On December 30, 1999 at 22:59:52, John Warfield wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> How is it possible for Hiarcs 7.0 running on a Amd K6-350 to defeat Rebel >>>Century running on a Athlon 800 in a six game match 4-3 ?? >> >>Did you use the autoplayer or did you play the games manually? >> >>The only serious way to test Rebel Century is by playing manually because Rebel >>does not "believe" in the autoplayer. >> >>Ed found that RebelCentury plays better without the autoplayer. >> >> >>Uri > > > It was played manually on two separate computers, mine and a friends. I did not >mean for this post to sound like a critisim of rebel, so far nimzo is having the >same bad luck, I think that there is just not as big a diference between a >athlon 800 and a Amd 350 as what I previously thought. It is generally believed my many that a doubling of speed gives you about 60-70 ELO points. That translates to about a 60-40 advantage in games played so in a 10 game match the faster hardware would win 6-4. There will be many times when this does not hold up and is why the SSDF plays hundreds of games to try to separate the programs. Even hundreds of games is not enough if they are close in strength and on the same hardware/conditions. People need to stop reading too much into a short match like 10 or 20 games. About hardware, I usually don't upgrade untill I will receive a 5 to 1 speed increase. I don't consider 2 to 1 worth the money. Just some of my thoughts. Happy Y2K, Jim Walker
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