Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 05:00:14 02/24/00
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On February 24, 2000 at 06:58:14, Amir Ban wrote: >On February 23, 2000 at 15:01:14, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >>On February 23, 2000 at 12:33:50, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On February 23, 2000 at 11:08:43, blass uri wrote: >>> >>>>shredder2 was not tested on the fast hardware because the ssdf always use fast >>>>hardware for new programs and old hardware for old programs. >>> >>>Has anyone considered that this might be a major source of error, perhaps rating >>>inflation? >> >>Why? Any suggestions of what to do instead. Do you think humans should refuse to >>play opponents rated 200 elo higher or lower. >> >>>"Always" is a bad word to use when you are trying to get an accurate result from >>>a system that is designed to produce accurate ratings within a pool where >>>everyone plays everyone under the same average conditions. >> >>Have you ever thought about that the human pool works in the same way, except >>for being much bigger? >> >>There is a slight inflation because some older programs have no >>learning-function. >> >>Of course the pool should be calibrated but not because of someones gut-feelings >>or wild guesses. >> >>Bertil >>> >>>bruce > >I think your real mistake is to use Shredder as the favorite competitor on the >MMX200 machine. Some people see testing on unequal platforms as an injustice to >the program running on the weaker machine, and by now you should understand that >you will not be able to convince them otherwise. We are not just testing programs, we are testing entries. Where Fritz 5.32/AMD K6-2 450 is one entry and Fritz 5.32/200 MMX is another. IOW they are two different players. >Shredder is highly protected by >some frequent posters here, and you are asking for trouble by testing it in the >way you do. You can easily avoid it by picking a different program to test. You >can take Junior 5/MMX200, for example, with my blessing. > >Amir We play against a lot of programs on 200MMX. The problem might be that Hans is the only one that post the games here. Tony
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