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Subject: Re: SIZE does matter ?!?!?!

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 11:33:09 01/16/00

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On January 16, 2000 at 14:13:59, pavel wrote:

>i was wondering about the size of hardware, does it really increase the
>performance of a chess program? if you take a very good example.......In ICC
>crafty account run by Hyaat runs on 4cpu!!! and its rating is between (up and
>down) 2950-3050. on the same server another crafty account named, eggsalad has
>same rating (right now its 3020 higher then crafty 2830(appx.)!!).
>what do you think? does it increase the performance of the program?
>thanks pavel


Eggsalad plays silly games to get the highest rating possible.  For example, it
only plays against humans.  This alone increases the ratings by at least 100
points, probably a lot more.



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