Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:06:31 08/25/01
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On August 25, 2001 at 06:26:50, Sune Fischer wrote: >On August 24, 2001 at 22:28:48, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >Hi Bruce > >>I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Junior won the tournament. They >>are not overall world champion, they are dual world champion. As long as they >>don't claim a title they didn't get, everything is fine. >> >> >>Regarding the rules for the tournament, there weren't really any. We hashed >>through some stuff at the players' meeting. >> >>But if someone had brought a quad that moved on wheels, there would have been no >>reason to rule it ineligible. The only rule that I know of is that it had to be >>on site. > >I must say I find those rules very strange. >First of all, I think it is very likely that Deep Junior is stronger than >Shredder even on a single processor system. >Why is DJ not given a chance to prove it is also the best on single CPU systems? >After all, you can't go out and claim that Shredder is "the best" without >letting DJ have a crack at it ;) > >I don't understand the rules for the hardware, of cause DJ is stronger than >Shredder on Dual, but in principle what would stop me from dragging in a Cray >and kick DJ *ss and claim the title? >Would that mean my program was the best - certainly not. The competition is not to answer which program is the best but to decide about the world champion. The question which program is better is also not clear even on uniform platform because it may be dependent on the hardware or the time control and it is possible that at blitz on p200 program A is best and on tournament time control on dual P1000 program B is best. If your program can use the cray when Deep Junior cannot and using the cray help your program to be better than Deep Junior on the best hardware that Junior can use than it means that you can claim that your program is better than Deep Junior because if I have 1,000,000$ for buying a chess hardware and chess software and I want to buy the best program then I am going going to prefer your program+cray and not Deep Junior. Uri
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