Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:11:35 04/23/01
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On April 22, 2001 at 19:53:50, Chessfun wrote: >On April 22, 2001 at 19:48:26, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>On April 22, 2001 at 19:37:54, Chessfun wrote: >> >>>I never assumed that for a minute, I doubt also others did. >>>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?165025 >>> >>>Sarah. >> >>I thought you only wanted to use one dual? :-) >> >>Mogens. > >Actually I never cared, I just assumed one would be available >and never assumed the 8 cpu machine would be available for >the tournament/match, which was why I wanted to look at the >argument and # games using one dual. > >Sarah. This simply shows how silly the match qualification is. Playing a match on a dual has very little to do with how the same program will do on an 8-way box. Sloppy algorithms usually do pretty well on a dual, but as the number of processors goes up, the performance gain drops quickly. I _really_ see no reason to have a qualifier if they are not going to use the same hardware as that used in the real match. Otherwise, they should simply take the last WCCC which had a variety of hardware platforms and use that result. The reasoning here (or lack thereof) boggles the mind...
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