Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:55:42 12/30/03
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On December 30, 2003 at 16:02:22, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On December 30, 2003 at 14:33:10, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On December 30, 2003 at 11:49:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> >>>But tournaments where people are allowed to use any hardware >>>they can find (non-uniform platform tournaments) are a pure >>>nonsense. >> >>I posted about that several times, last time probably 2 weeks ago. In short: >>would you be happy if organizers provide to every participant 16-way Itanium2 >>system, and insist that all programs will run on that hardware? That is uniform >>hardware tournament, right? >> >>Thanks, >>Eugene > >I would join straight away. Even with old GCC compiler without PGO diep is 5 >times faster at that hardware (1.3Ghz I2) than my dual K7 ;) > >As a matter of fact a certain big sponsor offered all participants quad xeons >for the world champs 1999, but some big computerchess company prevented that. I do not believe that a computer chess company had the power to prevent sponsor to give the participants the hardware that the sponsotr wants to give them. Your stories simply do not seem to be logical. Uri
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