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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