Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:48:30 09/24/01
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On September 24, 2001 at 11:25:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 24, 2001 at 09:55:10, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On September 24, 2001 at 09:02:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>Exactly the point. That was _the_ reason Cray chose to support us for >>>so long. Easy way to get their name in most every computer publication on >>>the planet, once a year or so... >>> >>>And yes, they charged a fortune for a machine that sold for around $60 >>>million 10-20 years ago. >> >>The difference is that you _won_ those tournaments. > >Look again. We started on the Cray in 1980. We won the 1983 WCCC. >We won the 1984 ACM event. HiTech beat us in the 1985 ACM event. We >Won the 1986 WCCC event. We didn't win any events after that due to >Deep Thought. Yet we played on a Cray through 1995 and probably could >still play today if the ACM events had not dropped away and then Crafty >coming along... > > > >> >>Last time I looked, the StarSocrates/Cilkchess guy's weren't >>doing all that great vs. the top commercials, and I'd think >>more or less the same would apply to crafty even if it were >>running on a 20Mnps Alpha. > >I'd happily take my chances running on that machine. I don't do that badly >running on normal hardware. > > > >> >>Speed is nice, but isn't everything. It's certainly not >>enough to ensure winning nowadays. > >Depends. If you have a superior _real NPS_ speed, and your program is not >horrible in its evaluation, it will have its chances. the better an evaluation is the more you profit from a bigger depth relatively compared to others of course, but book is nowadays also worth 500 points or so from a programs rating *easily*. If you get toasted out of book then you're history usually. > > >> >>-- >>GCP
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