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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