Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 07:40:42 01/07/02
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>>Possible, but complicated. A good compromise is IMO what they do in Paderborn: >>the organization aranges all hardware, and you can for instance chose P3-700 >>single or P3-700 double for your program. Nothing is perfect, but pretty fair >>I would say! >> >>For tournaments in which we have to bring our own hardware we are in a vicious >>circle. Since everybody is bringing the fastest hardware on the market, I have >>to too. Why not end that, and set a speed limit. Everybody can arrange an old >>laptop, very convenient, and we could compete in fairness forever. >> >>Best regards, >>Bas. > >I support this idea totally, but I know that other programmers are afraid of >competing with equal weapons. Not too many, I bet. As far as I know only Bob seriously defends the viewpoint that this would be unfair to multi CPU programmers. >Personally I would be very glad to enter an uniform platform tournament. But >this is something that we talk about since a long time and it never happens (at >least no World title has ever been played under these conditions, and I'm >pretty sure it will never happen). >Christophe I would like it too. The fact that there has never been such a thing would make it even more interesting. Bas.
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