Author: blass uri
Date: 03:53:48 06/12/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 06:39:46, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 12, 2000 at 05:31:48, blass uri wrote: > >>I disagree >>It is only a question of money. > >Which is why it's a circus event and not a chess event. > >>Different hardware class will increase the interest because the people who buy >>the programs want the best program to help them to analyze their games. > >Downsizing the hardware would make that distinction difficult. As you wrote >yourself, some programs have better opening and endgame knowledge than others. >Without hardware restrictions it would be virtually impossible to draw any >conclusions about the strength differences between programs and the consumer >doesn't have access to that kind of hardware. The user does have access to tablebases and opening book. Part of the users have excess only to cheap hardware when part of the users have excess to more expensive hardware. From the point view of the user it is important to have tournments when there is some limitation about the hardware and it is important also to have tournaments when there is no limitation about the hardware. It is possible to decide also about strict limitation that will have no importance for the user(hardware 386,not enough free memory for the opening book of the top programs and even not enough free memory for part of the programs so only small programs (not bigger than TSCP) can compete) I think that the last limitation can be used in the future in part of the human-computer when the humans are not very strong players because programs will have no chance against the best players with this limitation. Uri
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