On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Edward de Grijs wrote:
> Nobody really believes ratings are 100% "right on the money"
accurate.
>
> But it's silly not to use the most correct method possible. Ratings
> are "a very useful approximation to reality" and you might as
well get
> as close to that reality as you can.
>
>
> - Don
But then we have to take the amount of computing power
(nr of cpu and speed of cpu's) into account.
This has a major influence on UCT/MC programs.
Otherwise we only test the package of progam+computer together
and not the progam alone.
Speed differences of more then 10 exists in the rating pool...
--Edward
In the many chess computer rating lists, the entities in the list are
determined by:
1) Program, including version and settings (e.g. standard vs. hyper-
modern)
2) Platform, including processor, clock speed, number of cores, and
amount of memory devoted to transposition tables
Sometimes the entities are even distinguished by which opening book
or endgame database is in use.
Ian
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