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Subject: Re: Computer Chess is pointless

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 12:36:46 01/07/02

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On January 07, 2002 at 10:40:42, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>>>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.

See, now you are already arguing about *what* uniform platform to use. :-)

I'm sure Bob would be very satisifed with 32xAlpha or Cray T90 as the common
hardware.



Bo Persson
bop2@telia.com



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