Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:12:18 09/25/01
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On September 24, 2001 at 18:48:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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*. Can you cite a rigorous proof of your "better evaluation ..." statement? I don't see where evaluation plays _any_ role in searching and in parallel performance of a serial search. > >If you get toasted out of book then you're history usually. So? Don't get toasted. I didn't at the last WCCC. It is avoidable. > >> >> >>> >>>-- >>>GCP
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