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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 23:52:43 07/13/04

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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.

You are overlooking one fine ingredient of a World Championship, it is supposed
to show the best chess possible on a computer. To play a World Championship with
limited strength is not in the nature of the event, if you do so you should give
the event another name.

My best,

Ed



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