Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 15:53:56 07/13/04
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On July 13, 2004 at 18:46:36, Lance Perkins wrote: >Nope. A horse race is a competion between different horses "and" different >jockeys. What if some jokies are riding donkies instead of horses? >You see, they don't swap jockeys later and do another round. Jockeys >play a great part - they too are sportsmen (like football players). > >I'm not really sure how you come up with your analogies. Even if you give humans >the same time to think in chess, some humans think faster or better than others, >and make use of time better than others. > >Are you proposing that in WCCC, all chess engines should evaluate the same >number of nodes per move? You see, its not just about the time spent, since some >engines are compiled with better compilers and will therefore process more nodes >per given time. > >On July 13, 2004 at 18:29:53, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>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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