Author: José Carlos
Date: 01:32:48 10/23/02
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On October 23, 2002 at 04:23:42, Sune Fischer wrote: >On October 23, 2002 at 03:49:59, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On October 23, 2002 at 03:31:34, Sune Fischer wrote: >> >>>On October 23, 2002 at 03:18:26, Tony Werten wrote: >>> >>>>On October 22, 2002 at 22:51:33, Peter Skinner wrote: >>>> >>>>>On October 22, 2002 at 20:17:52, Bob Durrett wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>When will Deep Diep become available? >>>>>> >>>>>>Bob D. >>>>> >>>>>When it wins a major title. So probably never. >>>> >>>>You obviously don't follow computer chess. Last CSVN tournement Diep finished >>>>2nd. Also participating there were Fritz, Shredder, Tiger and King. >>>> >>>>If somebody finishes 2nd in that field you don't expect him to never win a >>>>tournement. >>>> >>>>Tony >>> >>>On equal hardware? >> >>First, Fritz and Shredder ran on much better duals. King and Tiger weren't >>capable of running on duals. >> >>Second, being able to run on the newest hardware is part of the quality of a >>program. > >No argument there, but 99% of the users have ordinary single chip machines, so >one should be careful going around telling them that program X is better than Y >because X did well in a tournament and then not mention it played on better >hardware. > >That is what I dislike about these open hardware tournaments, people tend to >forget the hardware and only remember the program, and when there are that many >almost equally strong programs hardware certainly becomes an issue. Agreed. But it's also true that the work spent in doing a program hardware-whatever compatible deserves an opportunity to be shown. In an equal-hardware tournament, that work is useless. José C.
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