Author: martin fierz
Date: 15:44:18 11/20/03
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On November 20, 2003 at 11:00:09, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 20, 2003 at 10:57:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 19, 2003 at 18:25:40, martin fierz wrote: >>> >>>sheesh! >>> >>>if anyone is missing a point here it's you! why don't you read the post >>>completely before crying wolf? >>> >>>matthew suggested that holding a CC world championship without US participation >>>is about like playing a human chess world championship without russians. >>> >>>that statement is totally wrong. there is simply not a single US program which >>>is anywhere near the top of computer chess, period. > >That statement is _totally_ wrong. The WCCC is an "open hardware" event. >If you take the top commercial programs running on a single CPU box, and >Crafty running on a big Opteron box, I'd claim Crafty has at _least_ as good >a chance of winning as any one-cpu program, and probably better chances. so? in what way does that make my statement wrong? . of course, if you give one of those american programs a huge hardware advantage, then it has it's chance - that is pretty clear! if i ran my rather weak program on a box which is 1000x faster than yours you would lose. does this make me proud? does this make my program better than yours?? go figure... i talked about *programs*. not about the combination of hardware+software. i don't know why you do it, but you seem to deliberately misunderstand any sentence i write ;-) cheers martin
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