Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:24:02 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 03:23:29, Sune Fischer wrote: >On July 14, 2004 at 03:10:36, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On July 14, 2004 at 02:04:06, Sune Fischer wrote: >> >>>Even if Omid was the greates chess programmer in the world and had written the >>>ultimate SMP engine, he would still need to get his hands on some super hardware >>>to be competitive. >>> >>>It's just as much, if not more, a contest of who can get the fastest hardware >>>than who can write the best program. >>>So if you want to be a WCCC don't spend too much time on programming, better >>>spend time on finding a big sponsor for your hardware! >>> >>>That's what makes it all a little silly, IMO. >>> >>>I don't really have an alternative solution, I believe we already have the SSDF >>>as a sort of world ranking on single cpus. An 11 round tournament could not >>>replace that anyway. >>> >>>-S. >> >>The WCCC is a contest with certain rules, and one of those rules is open >>hardware. Some people realize what a significant part of the event this is and >>they spend a non-trivial amount of time making arrangements to borrow top of the >>line hardware. Others down play the hardware aspect of the competition and >>complain because they get beat by someone who understood the contest better than >>they did. > >Obviously. > >As I said it's just as much a contest to see who can get their hands on the >fastest hardware. >It's far better to spend two month searching for a big machine (how many pages >was it Vincent had to write to get CPU time on the super computer??), than it is >to try and improve the program (requires a years work to equal out twice faster >hardware). If I believe that equal out twice faster hardware requires more than one year then it is for me time to stop chess programming. Fortunately I am still more optimistic. Uri
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