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

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 23:57:42 01/16/00

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On January 17, 2000 at 01:17:21, pavel wrote:

>On January 16, 2000 at 14:33:09, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>duh!!
>I thought humans are stronger players then computers!!
>pavel :))

If that was not a serious comment, ignore the rest of this. :)

IMO, the strongest of humans (GMs, primarily), are stronger than computer
programs at long time controls (40/2, etc.).  On ICC, you're looking at
Eggsalad's blitz rating.  In blitz chess, or even slow standard, the computers
probably are stronger than all, or at least most, humans.



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