Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 18:42:30 04/01/03
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On April 01, 2003 at 17:00:58, Walter Faxon wrote: You walked into a 1 april joke of Robert Hyatt. Look how quickly always his opinion changes onto this: Return-Path: <hyatt@cis.uab.edu> X-XS4ALL-To: <diep@maildrop.xs4all.nl> X-Authentication-Warning: crafty.cis.uab.edu: hyatt owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:47:11 -0500 (CDT) From: "Robert M. Hyatt" <hyatt@cis.uab.edu> X-X-Sender: <hyatt@crafty> To: Vincent Diepeveen <diep@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: advice supercomputer On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Bob, please don't shout about icc. > > first of all a 2001 diep version plays there. > secondly it plays with a random book without learning. > third at inferior hardware. > > but most important, it's not slow level. it's not 3 minutes a move > what gets played there. The recent games I watched were 30 30 and 60 30 time controls. Very similar to ICCA tournaments. The hardware being used for some was a dual AMD which was as fast as my quad xeon... > > So don't shout about ICC. that's nonsense. > > Now imagine that my tournament book is nearly that good and the engine > is better. > > Anyway, you don't have source code from cray blitz anymore, > so it's hard to talk about how cray blitz would do. Sorry, but I still have source code for Cray Blitz. Including 20,000 lines of assembly language... Therefore I _know_ how it will do because I occasionally get time on a Cray to fiddle around, and Cray Blitz is the first thing I fiddle with given the opportunity. [snip] >On April 01, 2003 at 13:51:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>As far as Cray Blitz goes, you are probably correct unless I one day choose >>to go back and re-type about 60,000 lines of Fortran and 20,000 lines of >>assembly and debug it all again. No source files exist, no log files >>exist. All I have is printed stuff from those days now. >> >>Which is neither here nor there in terms of importance since it hasn't played >>chess in almost 10 years now anyway. > > >No Cray Blitz source files remain? Tragedy! > >If the printed stuff includes source, you should definitely encourage one of >your students to scan it and correct it at least through a clean parse -- maybe >for "extra credit". ;) > >-- Walter
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