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Subject: Bob has source code still

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:

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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:47:11 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Robert M. Hyatt" <hyatt@cis.uab.edu>
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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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