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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 08:41:04 07/14/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 11:38:31, Peter Berger wrote:

>On July 14, 2004 at 11:26:47, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>
>>On July 14, 2004 at 11:12:14, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>
>>>Not at all, Omid
>>>If you already have a parallel engine you should run it into a hardware capable
>>>of getting all its power.
>>
>>I understand that you are going to provide the hardware, right?
>>
>>It is not something personal; next year I will have the needed hardware, but
>>what about others? Deep Sjeng and ParSOS were also parallel engines, but ran on
>>single processor not because they thought it was better, but because they did
>>not have access to a fast multiprocessor machine.
>>
>
>I wonder what except the results changed from two weeks ago to now to make you
>imply this is an unfair event and go on raving about it ?!
>
>Weren't you even one of the organizers?

Yes, and I complained loudly about it even before the event.


>
>The multi-processor entries got the first 5 places in the tournament - this was
>partly unexpected by some, probably including you. Had you been aware of it
>before the event you probably would have tried to get better hardware in case
>your engine can use it successfully. Every other answer is a bit hard to believe
>for me.
>
>Peter



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