Author: Uri Blass
Date: 08:27:53 07/14/04
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On July 14, 2004 at 10:17:08, Matthew Hull wrote: >On July 14, 2004 at 02:33:26, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On July 14, 2004 at 01:27:59, Matthew Hull wrote: >> >>>Then it wouldn't be boxing, would it. Your analogy is completely bogus. >>> >>>Look, man. A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP is the big league. Not some bush league >>>desktop computer event. This is where we expect to see the biggest hardware and >>>the best software. You can't get the best computer chess in the world if you >>>limit the hardware. It neutralizes the title of the event. You expect the >>>CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WHOLE EARTH to have the biggest and meanest computer chess >>>playing systems that can be assembled. >> >>If this is your expectation then you can be disappointed because the last 4 >>programs even did not use a fast single processor machine and only used a slow >>Pentium4 2.8 ghz. >> >>Deep Sjeng also did not use more than one processor inspite of the fact that the >>program is capable of doing it. > > >This is perfectlly fine. Single CPU systems which are expertly programmed still >can score the upsets and win big games. But we expect bigger hardware systems >for stronger chess, which we got. And at least one program can run on HUGE >hardware, but did not. > >I see this whole line of bogus reasoning as whining, because people know that if >a certain program shows up next year, it will likely have the biggest hardware. >Anyone not directly involved with another engine wants to see that, because the >strongest, fastest, deepest searching engine is what we all want to see. Those >who have their own engines to enter don't want that for obvious reasons. I have no objection to the possibility that every program will use the best hardware that it can use but you know that it is not the case in WCCC. If Crafty can use bigger hardware than the commercial programs I have no objection that it gets it. Bob says that he had not enough time to get 8 opterons but it is also possible that the commercial programs could also use 8 opteron if they only could get the hardware that bob wanted so it is not clear to me that Crafty was handicapped relative to the commercial programs by not using 8 opterons. Uri Uri
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