Purple Puppy Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 I tried this, with both of them set at the highest possible level. It is really slow, since each of them needs to calculate several tens of moves forward. However, being curious, I went to find out... which is better at chess? So, I ran Vista's chess program in VMware, and Mac OS X chess program outside of vmware, and started the game with Vista as white and mac as black. Currently, they are at that... Updates to come. I didn't bother to keep track of each of their moves, however. Many times one of them nearly checkmated the other, but was ingeniously prevented. To tell the truth, I'm impressed by the computer's prowess at chess. ...And the Mac OS X chess program won! Hooray! Later when I tried letting mac play against vista in the easiest level, vista won and mac lost. Sorry but no screenshot available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Wow, you have no life. LOL very interesting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin R. Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Heh. That's kinda funny. Were you bored or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nub Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...mages&gbv=2 Next time try not running it through wmware. Vista automatically will set the graphics level down if the computer can't handle it. K thanks and bye... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin R. Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...mages&gbv=2 Next time try not running it through wmware. Vista automatically will set the graphics level down if the computer can't handle it. K thanks and bye... He's not talking about the graphics of the game, but rather the thinking capacity of the game. Vista can do quite the same amount of calculations if it was in a virtual machine as if it was in a regular PC enviroment. Try not to be so angry. Kay, thanks, and bye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 It was mainly cus I didn't install VMware Tools in Vista (yet), so hardware graphics acceleration is disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 honestly who submits this topic to digg? cough*denied*cough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denied Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 man I thought that was a good submit. nobody else did but I put my $.02 in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSkully Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 It may have to do with the fact that they are using different Chess algorithms... (I assume) Tell me if I am wrong. An Interesting experiment though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 I'm almost certain that they are using different Chess algorithms... they were developed independent of each other, I presume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 I'm almost certain that they are using different Chess algorithms... they were developed independent of each other, I presume. Nah, it's easier to say MS stole chess, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellojeffo Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Pretty curious.. how did you initiate the game between the two? If u sat there and started moving the pieces, u'd have to initiate some move first right? Arghhh.. lolzzz.. me confused.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmguru007 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Hi, What a comparison man? I thought of people going insane into comparing Mac and Vista, but never thought any one taking it that far. Any way another good insane comparison which cover a lot of areas between Mac & Vista can be found at Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard VS Microsoft Windows Vista !!!! Enjoy, vmguru007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squ1r3 Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Hmm, as you generally seem to be rather biased towards mac...I suspect that you did not think to set Vista's engine settings as high as possible...ie. playing strength, time taken per move, etc... Another point is that you did not(I imagine) allow Vista's program to use much of the sytems resources, and so mac had the advantage. Anyways, set Chessmaster or Fritz onto mac and your precious program will be destroyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Bah.. way to bump up an ancient topic.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm0s Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 Bah.. way to bump up an ancient topic.. This is an awesome idea if you think about it. Which development team can program better algorithms? I was about to run this experiment myself (though I was going to manually move each piece (which I may still do)) when I found someone had already done it. Yay for bumping ancient threads!!! Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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