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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 15:29:53 07/13/04

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On July 13, 2004 at 18:25:34, Lance Perkins wrote:

>Indeed. And that is what you see in horse races. Horses have different skills
>and run differently depending on the kind of race track. And the jockeys have
>different skills.

Right, and that competition is by definition a competition between different
horses. You won't see some jockies riding horses and others riding donkies, as
is the case in WCCC.


>
>The winner? The best jockey + horse combination.
>
>Have you seen anyone go to the Kentucky Derby with a Donkey and complain that
>its unfair?
>
>Can I go the tournament with minimal book and complain later that my oponents
>have books prepared by GM's. That can't be "computer" chess anymore. That's
>human GM chess.

In a human tournament, would it be fair to give one participant 2 hours for 60
moves, and the other participant 8 hours for the same number of moves?


>
>On July 13, 2004 at 18:08:23, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>On July 13, 2004 at 17:53:20, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>Tha's fallacy, my friend. Programs that use different hardware ARE NOT
>>>indifferent programs than  are just by chance riding faster horses; they are
>>>made to work with this or that hardware, SO to use it is part of the
>>>programming.
>>
>>My program is also made to work with parallel hardware. But as I replied to
>>Dann, running a parallel engine on a single processor machine is not much fun...
>>
>>You can be a great horse rider, but when you are given a donkey, you will most
>>probably lose to a much less skilled competitor riding a horse.
>>
>>
>>>My bst
>>>fernando



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