Author: James T. Walker
Date: 06:18:47 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 07:24:42, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 07:19:37, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>One note: even if this tournament is 40/40 - it is played in P500 - so >>this means almost same as TOURNAMENT 40/2h in 200 MMX PC!! So no excuses type: >>my program is better with longer time controls... >> >>Jouni > >I keep saying that in my opinion there is no significant difference between >40/40 and 120/40. I also know that some people that always tested at 40 in 2 are >thinking about switching to 40/40. Maybe there are programs like CST and Diep >that need really long time controls, but for the rest it is roughly the same, I >think. > >Enrique Hello Enrique, You may be right about that but how do we know which ones need the full 40/2hrs time control without testing them there? I have now played over 7,000 blitz games with the few programs I have and my blitz results are "close" to the SSDF results if you don't count Rebel and CSTal-2 ( I don't own Diep). I have a "first impression" about the new programs that they are "tuned" for 400-500 mhz machines and gain more than would be expected by going from 200Mhz to 400Mhz. Since SSDF does not test Crafty, I don't know which category it fits into. I know that at Blitz on fairly equal hardware it's still below the top programs. I don't test Crafty at 40/2 because by the time I got some results they would not apply to the current version. And I only test about every 5th version of Crafty at blitz. Jim Walker
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