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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Lance Perkins

Date: 15:15:42 07/13/04

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Are you saying that given the same hardware, games between chess programs are
"fair" by your definition?

How can it be if they use different opening books?

What people put in the code is not even the same.

Arasan's eval code has 3700 lines of code. Thinker has less than 1000 LOC.
Arasan's binary is 1.3M (1300K). Thinker is 80K (less that 16 times). Have you
seen a boxing match between 50lb kid and a 180lb adult?

Maybe folks are having difficulty with the idea that a chess program is a
combination of hardware and software. Can you really do anything with just
sotware?

The world "computer" chess champion is the best H+S combo.

Cheers...

On July 13, 2004 at 17:45:30, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On July 13, 2004 at 17:40:19, Lance Perkins wrote:
>
>>In a "war", that's how it is.
>
>Nobody claimed war is fair.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>On July 13, 2004 at 17:38:42, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>
>>>The 2004 World Boxing Championship
>>>
>>>Rules:
>>>Each participant is allowed to use whatever weaponry he would like.
>>>
>>>Participants:
>>>
>>>Name       Weapon
>>>----       ------
>>>Bill       no weapon
>>>Jack       knife
>>>Jonathan   handgun
>>>George     M16 rifle
>>>Robert     RPG
>>>
>>>May the best boxer win!



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