Author: Pete Galati
Date: 20:44:43 01/18/01
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On January 18, 2001 at 19:15:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 18, 2001 at 18:43:31, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On January 18, 2001 at 18:03:46, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On January 18, 2001 at 17:51:52, John Dahlem wrote: >>> >>>>Ok, the strongest chess MACHINE. now its cleared up! thanks, this key word had >>>>passed me by when I was looking at the hardware stats. >>> >>>Perhaps that's not the ideal description either. The search is for the >>>strongest possible combination of hardware and software. >> >>In this case every software should get the best hardware that it can use but it >>does not happen because there are no sponsors that are really interested in the >>best combination of hardware and software. > >The search is for what is desired. What is achieved is never equal to that. I've never believed that these things should be run on equal hardware. That would be boring IMO. Going back to the car race theme (sorry!!), the most boring car races in the world were those IROC races where highly rated drivers were all piled into close to identical machines, hideously boring. The BEST car races were the "World Of Outlaws" races when they're done on dirt tracks. Nothing comes remotely close! These guys tour the country with their very high powered V8, winged Sprint Car type of machines, and they also race against the local guys who have almost no budget and might only get a chance to use their cars once or twice a year, and they bring out their home-brew racers and have a go of it. Hey, screw equal hardware. Life's too short for that shhh. Put them all on equal hardware, and you raise the cost of participating, those equal machines are NOT free, and when you raise the cost of competing, the little guy who didn't have the budget for a killer computer is no longer able to attend. And by not attending, he looses something more valuable than being able to run his program on equal hardware. Oh, and not to mention, that equal hardware wasn't all that was going to be required for the little guy to win. Participating has more value than winning, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Pete
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